Past Residents
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano work in a collaborative video practice. Their performance works consist of unchoreographed movements that are activated and influenced by handmade sculptural objects while also considering the architecture / space that the body sits within. The relationship between movement and object are usually minimal with the emphasis placed on form, structure and sound components. The performance videos are edited into abstract, rhythmic compositions which relay their interests in movement and how movement can be pushed and revealed through different processes.
Their work was recently shown at More Light, The Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2013, and Shifting Lines, Christchurch Art Gallery, 2013. Other selected shows include: All Our Relations,18th Biennale of Sydney, 2012; Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2012; Contemporary Art: Women, Gallery of Modern Art , Brisbane, 2012; Identity V111, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2012; 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2011; Before and After Science: The 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2010; The Trickster, The Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, 2010 and Love, Loss and Intimacy, National Gallery of Victoria, 2010. Selected solo exhibitions include: Shapes for Open Spaces, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2012; Neon, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2010 and Gabriella Mangano, Silvana Mangano, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2009.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Neon, 2010, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Echo, 2013, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Light, 2013, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Sculpture Sequence, 2012, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Rewind, 2012, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Past Resident2013: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Claire Moeder
Claire Moeder is interested in the history of exhibitions. Her articles, exhibition reviews and research are all means of examining that which goes into making a uniquely rich exhibition. Her fascination for words along with an inclination toward long perambulations through museums have led her to write about the complexity of the museum space. She has preserved a particular interest for those artists who appropriate the exhibition and turn it into their own field of play. Her recent curatorial work is guided by a spirit of close collaboration with artists and by a curiosity for works that enable her to preserve and sustain a child’s gaze.
Claire Moeder is a Montreal-based curator, author and critic. She earned a master’s degree from the Art History and Curatorial program at University of Rennes, France. She has covered art exhibitions for the online magazine Ratsdeville since 2010 and has also published several articles for journals in Quebec (Zone Occupée) and France (Marges). She contributed to the catalogue for the 2009 Mois de la Photo à Montréal and to the first monograph dedicated to the work of Christian Marclay. Since 2008, Moeder has taken part in numerous exhibition projects with artists in the Quebec. In 2014, she will curate an extensive exhibition of the work of Iranian-Canadian artist Sayeh Sarfaraz and will publish the first monograph devoted to the artist.
Christian Marclay, Christian Marclay: SNAP!, 2009, Monography. Courtesy of the curator and Presses du réel editions.
Christian Marclay, Christian Marclay: SNAP!, 2008, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the curator.
Sayeh Sarfaraz, Mémoire d’éléphant, 2013, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the curator.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Henrjeta Mece
Henrjeta Mece’s practice explores issues related to the body, time, place and sense of belonging. Challenged by the world’s state in flux, her artwork references the contemporary experience of travel, mobility, borders, and diasporas. Mece’s artistic process employs reterritorialization as a method to: create images that allude to maps, remap a location outside of geographical systems of organization, and produce a temporary place of belonging. Without using direct biographical material, her multimedia installations focus on materializing trajectories rather than destinations. The artwork itself exists in the process as much as in the object and remains a course in the struggle to be positioned.
Henrjeta Mece is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, writer and educator. She completed her BFA and MFA at Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto . Mece is the recipient of numerous awards including, Vtape Fellowship, Canada Millennium Excellence Award, and various Ontario Arts Council grants. Mece’s artwork and curatorial projects have been exhibited in venues including, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, 2011; Banff Centre of the Arts 2009-2010; Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art, 2012 and Zweigstelle Gallery, Berlin, 2012.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Henrjeta Mece and Saša Tkačenko
October 1, 2013
Henrjeta Mece, Looking Into the Future, 2013, Coffee stains on tissue paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Henrjeta Mece, Piled up City Nr. 8, 2010, C-print, 36 × 48 in. (91.44 × 121.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Henrjeta Mece, Reterritorializing Belonging, 2009, Video installation, 30 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Henrjeta Mece, The Traveler's Blanket, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 36 × 48 in. (91.44 × 121.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Henrjeta Mece, Untitled, 2012, Mixed media, 20 × 20 in. (50.8 × 50.8 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
