Honored to be the Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence at the Norton Museum of Art from February to March 2025

The Norton Museum of Art established the artist-in-residence (AiR) program in 2019. The program features four artists annually, emphasizes the Norton’s commitment to fostering creative and intellectual growth for mid- to late-career artists whose work warrants greater attention, and to promoting gender, racial, and ethnic parity in the arts through the dedication of two residencies annually for women artists. One of those is exclusively for an African-American or Latina woman artist, and is endowed as the Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence.

Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence
February to March 2025
Norton Museum of Art
1450 S. Dixie Highway | West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Omar Barquet, Taka Fernández, Madeline Jiménez, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Fabiola Menchelli, José Luis Landet, Mauro Giaconi, Ícaro Zorbar, Perla Krauze, Moris

ZONA MACO 2025
Arróniz Gallery, Booth C116
Centro Citibanamex, Mexico City
February 5 – 9, 2025

Marshall Gallery is pleased to present a new solo exhibition of unique copper-plate works by Mexico City-based artist Fabiola Menchelli.

The installation will showcase a suite of nine unique copper heliogravure plates made from Menchelli’s abstract photograms and will run from February 15 – March 15,  including an artist’s reception at the gallery during Frieze Art Week. Additional programming details are forthcoming.

Known for her continual progression of camera-less and photo-sculptural processes, Menchelli’s work is also the focus of the concurrent solo exhibition certain silence on view now Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, FL.

Marshall Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave. #A6
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday and Monday by Appointment

“Disobedience is the transversal of mirages,
a manner of lightheartedly breaking bonds,
because one has agreed to lose everything, including life.”

– Anne Dufourmantelle, In Praise of Risk (2011)

In the darkroom, Mexican artist Fabiola Menchelli (born 1983) transforms light from source to raw material. Working in complete darkness without the aid of a “safelight,” she folds, unfolds, exposes, develops, and sometimes solarizes vivid, abstract color photograms. There is no camera and there are no negatives. Rather, she relies upon touch, sound, and color theory to make each work with the movements of her own body. There is also physical risk: working with color in the darkroom is demanding and unforgiving, requiring special safety gear and a reorientation of the body and mind. The results are atmospheric and ethereal, liquid and often unmeasured. They are at once photographs, paintings, and sculptures—and the process of making is recorded directly onto the surface of the paper.

Considering Menchelli works blindly, encounters with risk, chance, and error are central to her practice. Historically, the photographic medium has been both praised and constrained by its capacity for technical precision: framing, composition, focus, defined light and shadow, all further calibrated in darkroom processing. Menchelli’s photograms push against this tradition, requiring a physical presence and exchange between her body and the photographic paper that goes beyond the two-dimensional frame. Rather than operate a camera to capture the world, she enacts disobedience, to allow for other ways of understanding existence from feminist perspectives. She trusts her own intuition and muscle memory, embracing uncertainty as a radical act of unlearning.

The Norton is honored to welcome Menchelli as our 2024-25 Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence. certain silence marks her first solo museum exhibition.

All works courtesy of the artist, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, and Marshall Gallery, unless otherwise noted.

Lauren Richman, Ph.D.
William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography
Organized by the Norton Museum of Art. Support for this exhibition was provided by the William and Sarah Ross Soter Photography Fund.

Thank you to Lauren Richman for her incredible kindness, trust, and support in making this show. Thank you to Rachel Gustafson, Pam Parry, Victoria Pesta, Sarah Bass, Carlos R. Faure Maurás, Ashley Kerr, Scott Simmons, Erin Ammon, Arthur Salazar, Lorraine Bond, Glenn Tomlinson, and everyone at the Norton Museum of Art. Thank you to my team at FocoLab. My deepest gratitude to Priscila Vanneuville, Laura Orozco, Beatriz Diaz, Miguel Angel Ortega, Melvin Lara, Leslie Moody-Castro, Andrea Manuel, Andrea Martinez, Andrea Chapela, Jess Perlitz, Bean Gilsdorf, Artemio, Douglas Marshall, and Gustavo Arróniz. To Blaz and all my family with love.

Untitled Art Fair Miami Beach
6 a 8 de diciembre, 2024

Arróniz
Booth C44 con NIEVESFERNÁNDEZ and Nueveochenta

Chiharu Shiota, José Vera Matos, Rafael Grassi, Jordi Alcaraz, Fabiola Menchelli, Fernando Uhía, Lester Rodríguez y Moris

Marshall Gallery
Booth B35

Chris McCaw, Fabiola Menchelli, Albarran Cabrera, Rodrigo Valenzuela y Natalia Sanchez

TM · PARIS PHOTO 2024

Alexander Apóstol, Iñaki Bonillas, Miguel G. Counahan, Pilar Goutas, Fabiola Menchelli, Eric Taubman & Portfolio selection

Paris Photo 2024
TM, Voices Sector, Booth V03
Grand Palais, Paris
7-10th of November

Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo, CDMX
Opens Thursday Sep. 19th, 18 – 21 hr.
Sep 18 to Oct 30, 2024

Less a site or location and more an ambient, the chromosphere refers to the second layer of the sun’s atmosphere, and the most visible during a complete solar eclipse, when the moon’s positioning allows us to verify its distant existences, as a circle of active, explosive tendrils, a ring around the circular absence of the sun, in tones from red to blue and purple. The term is now borrowed briefly as the title for the exhibition of new work by Mexico City-based experimental photographer Fabiola Menchelli and Brooklyn-based painter Dannielle Tegeder.

We are pleased to invite you to the book launch of : & , which will be presented by Stephanie Snyder, curator and director of the Douglas F. Cooley Gallery, and Fabiola Menchelli.

Snyder and Menchelli will discuss the exhibition Dark Moves, which took place in Portland, Oregon; their working process, the collaboration with the talented artist Heather Walkins and the beautiful publication designed by Priscilla Vanneuville, which they will share with the public that day. We will also have a special music performance by Jonathan Snyder playing for the first time in México City.

The event will take place on March 12th at 19:00 h. at Angstroms, Aguascalientes 112, Colonia Roma Sur in Mexico City, as part of the closing of Fabiola Menchelli’s exhibition . The last day to visit the exhibition will be March 15, 2024.

We look forward to seeing you there.

We are not what we have seen
by Fabiola Menchelli
curated by Laura Orozco
5 Feb. – 10 Mar. 2024
Opening February 6, 2024

Arróniz at Angstroms
Aguascalientes 112, Colonia Roma CDMX
(Entrance through the public parking lot)

The exhibition We are not what we have seen by Fabiola Menchelli shows -for the first time in Mexico- a series of works that expand the corporeality of the photographic through a feminist gaze. The photograms present transcend the two-dimensionality of the medium, absorbing the sculptural. This unfolding generates a space that favors the production of new and parallel historical, procedural and formal narratives. – Laura Orozco

Nicole Oppenheimer (Círculo ‘21) Posición para un pequeño desvío

Bucareli 108, interior 107, Centro, CDMX
JAN. 27 – FEB. 24, 2024

Opening: Jan. 27, 13:00 – 18:00 h.

LTRL is pleased to present Circular el Tiempo, curated by Fabiola Menchelli. The exhibition arises from the project Círculo de Crítica de Obra and presents the work of 14 Latin American artists. The works gravitate around the idea of circularity, a polyphonic word that unfolds, expanding the reciprocity and sense of community generated by the Circle. The artists in the exhibition explore circularity as gesture, as verb, as process, as path, as social action, in relation to time, repetition, matter and image. They invite us to rethink circularity as an axis for reimagining and inhabiting new possible futures.

El Círculo de Crítica de Obra is a workshop for emerging Latin American artists. A horizontal space designed to advise the creative processes of the participants and to expand artistic research through accompaniment and group critique.

 
ARTISTS
 
Alejandro Palomino
Andrea Bores
Andrea Martinez
Antonia Alarcon
Carmen Vela
Claudia Luna
Fernanda Contreras
Jorge Rosano
Manuel la Rosa
Nicole Oppenheimer
Pancho Westerdam
Silvestre Borgatello
Sofia Peypoch
Ximena Pereyra
 

Curated by Fabiola Menchelli