mono presents viver em duplex, an exhibition by Giulia Siviero and Marlène Grand, two artists from the latest residency program. Schedule: Opening on 24th - 6pm to 10pm. From 25.11.2024 to 26.11.2024 - 3pm to 7pm mono lisboa - rua feio terenas 31A 1170-176 Lisboa free entry About Giulia’s work: Partly inspired by a book she found in a Lisbon flea market, 'Enciclopedia da Mulher' published in 1977, the research and work done by Giulia Siviero during the residency at Mono revolves around the power of display, and the very act of organizing and presenting. Arrangements of interiors combine different objects, fabrics and spaces to present a fixed copy of an everyday living situation. A never-used towel perfectly folded, clean plastic objects balancing on each other, a smooth ceramic pot on a monochromatic background. Part of the protocol of Giulia's work consists of extracting details, pictures and textures from researched and archived printed materials. She transforms and shapes these images in such a way that they emerge as paintings that will be part of a new scenario. About Marlène’s work: Observing her environment and the elements that make it up, the sea and light quickly became the focus of Marlène Grand's work, to the point of using them as creative tools. Exploring the possibilities of analog printing in colour and black and white, the darkroom became her place of learning and experimentation, where, like a painter, Marlène Grand created her own index of colour combinations. Intention and coincidence coexist, the notion of positive and negative are inseparable. Time and light complement each other, natural and chemical elements meet. In this way, abstract photographs are like objects that bear witness to a trace, a movement, a time or a place. The result of all her work is a balance between figuration and abstraction, revealing the sensitive, visible world and its subtle details. Bio notes: Giulia Siviero was born in Italy in 1993 and lives and works in Berlin. She studied graphic design at the IUAV in Venice and spent a year as an exchange student at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France. Through her practice of research, painting and installation, she re-examines the question of reproduced archive images and objects, bringing them to the rank of paintings in dialogue with the elements within the exhibition space. She is interested in their decontextualisation, the aesthetics and destruction that occur in the transition between analogue and digital, and their perception and role through time and contexts. This research in her practice has led her to travel in search of different materials and to exhibit in different countries such as Italy, Germany, France and Portugal. Marlène Grand was born in France in 1995 and lives and works in Vevey, Switzerland. She obtained a federal diploma in graphic design at CPNV in Ste-Croix in 2016 and a postgraduate degree in photography at CEPV in Vevey in 2022. She’s also a member of Espace Indiana (a cultural space dedicated to the visual arts in Vevey) and created Subtile, a label for her editorial work such as fanzines, photobooks and prints. Her practice revolves around the medium of the image, based on notions of materiality, place, temporality and trace. With a multidisciplinary and instinctive approach to the tools of the photographic medium, she uses both analog and digital processes. Inspired by the space around her as the basis of her work, Grand experiments in the darkroom with the possibilities of analog printing (e.g. chimigrams, photograms, etc.) or those of digital (e.g. video, image modification, printing and scanning, etc.), to then establish a working protocol. The result of her work questions our relationship with the tangible and the visible world, with an aesthetic balanced between abstraction and figuration.
