Mafalda Nicolas Mondestin

Mafalda Nicolas Mondestin is a Haitian visual artist born and raised in the United States, Haiti, and Canada. She studied Graphic Design at Valencia Community College in Florida. In 2012, Nicolas Mondestin moves to Haiti where she shifts her focus to the fine arts and pursues her practice full time, all the while working with non-profit organizations such as Le Centre d’Art. Nicolas Mondestin exhibits in Haiti, the United States and France, and has completed art residencies at the Cité International des Arts de Paris, in France and at the Taller Experimental Gráfica de la Habana, in Cuba. Her practice encompasses multiple mediums such as painting, drawing, and printmaking and collage. Nicolas Mondestin lives and works in Haiti.
Nicolas Mondestin’s most recent body of work starts as an exploration of the relationship that exists between female bodies and the spaces they evolve in, in this case nature. Bare female bodies are seen holding court evolving in a safe space, untouched by man made constructions and constraints. The work not only questions the reciprocal influence that exists between female bodies and nature, but also between the female body and society. How bodies are shaped by societal views and how we transform them in return.