NAMo
Natali Aguirre Montaña


Art+Design
Projects ++
  1. Portal to Jaguarity
  2. Cosmic Implications of Food from Abya Yala
  3. Wet Matter
  4. The Dust under the bed
  5. Don’t call me water, call me Teresa
  6. The Real and the Magical
  7. Rethinking Conquest: And Anti-Amazon Conversation
  8. Tracing the 735-kilometres
  9. Kitchen Series

    Explorations++
    1. Mycelium+Corn

    Architecture+SpatialDesign
    Spatial Design++
    1. Soils’ Exhibition
    2. DAE Final Exam
    3. ALTA Pasticceria
    4. PitStop Cafe & Pub 
    5. Bakery Kiosk
    6. Enseres Showroom

    Architecture ++
    1. SER Sustanible Living
    2. La Esperanza Home
    3. El Volador Home
    4. Otás Home
    5. Santa Marta Home
    6. CADN Childhood Center
    7. Gibraltar Velodrome


    CV++
    Portfolio++


    Info++
    Natali Aguirre Montaña is a Rotterdam-based designer and artist working across disciplines. With a background in architecture, spatial design, and interior design, her interdisciplinary practice bridges research, decolonial and feminist theory, and material exploration. Trained in Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, her work ranges from tufting to bioplastics, from ceramics to photography, and from textiles to spatial installations.

    Her work has been exhibited at the Van Abbemuseum with her project Portal to Jaguarity (2024), and at Vienna Design Week in the collaborative exhibition Don’t Move the Fountain (2024).

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    8. Tracing the 735-kilometre






                   From An inquiry into Mauritania’s railway and its social landscapes

    This project unfolds in two parts, each capturing the complex narrative surrounding Mauritania’s iron ore railway. The first is a documentary video tracing the 735-kilometre journey from Zouérat to Nouadhibou, revealing the layers of history, politics, and social inequality embedded in this route. Through satellite imagery and visual montage, the film explores the harsh beauty of the Sahara while exposing deeper realities—contemporary slavery, corruption, racial hierarchies, environmental degradation, and poor working conditions. 

    In contrast, the second component is a  canvas with a single black line on white, a simple drawing of the railway. This stark visual acts as a metaphorical scar across the landscape, evoking memory, movement, and the enduring imprint of extraction and inequality in Mauritania’s postcolonial terrain.


    Map data: Google