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We are not what we have seen

We are not what we have seen


Fabiola Menchelli
Curated by Laura Orozco
FEB. – MAR. 2024
Inauguración 5 de Febrero 2024

We are not what we have seen


Fabiola Menchelli
Curated by Laura Orozco
FEB. – MAR. 2024
Inauguración 5 de Febrero 2024

 

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

Circular el Tiempo

Circular el Tiempo


Curated by Fabiola Menchelli
Opening: Sat. January 27, 13:00 h.
LTRL lateral

Circular el Tiempo


Curated by Fabiola Menchelli
Opening: Sat. January 27, 13:00 h.
LTRL lateral


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

 

                        

Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now

Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now


Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now
Thursday, February 16, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sunday, July 02, 2023, 5:00 PM
Featured Exhibitions Gallery, Henry Radford Hope Wing, First Floor
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now


Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now
Thursday, February 16, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sunday, July 02, 2023, 5:00 PM
Featured Exhibitions Gallery, Henry Radford Hope Wing, First Floor
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

Thursday, February 16, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sunday, July 02, 2023, 5:00 PM
Featured Exhibitions Gallery, Henry Radford Hope Wing, First Floor
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

How does one experience a photograph that appears “unphotographic”? Focusing on the material and tactile properties of the medium, Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now is the first contemporary survey to examine cameraless photography across generations, cultures, and ideologies. Referred to as photograms or contact prints, cameraless photographs are made using analogue photography’s foundational elements: light, chemistry, and light-sensitive surfaces.

Presenting recent work by over 40 artists–including Yto Barrada, Iñaki Bonillas, Ellen Carey, Hernease Davis, Sheree Hovsepian, Roberto Huarcaya, Kei Ito, Dakota Mace, Fabiola Menchelli, Lisa Oppenheim, Daisuke Yokota, among many others–Direct Contact highlights many emerging global artists and features primarily women-identifying artists. Unfolding across five sections–Age, Scale, Form, Texture, and Value–Direct Contact positions cameraless photography as both an intellectual cornerstone in the medium’s history and an enduring and important force within contemporary art.

The exhibition is curated by Lauren Richman, Assistant Curator of Photography.

Fabiola Menchelli, Horizon II, 2019, Archival pigment print, 44 x 55 in

 

Dark Moves: Fabiola Menchelli & Heather Watkins

Dark Moves: Fabiola Menchelli & Heather Watkins


Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College
On view February 16—May 14
Reception and artist talk: Saturday, February 25 at 2:00 pm, Reed Chapel, Eliot Hall

Dark Moves: Fabiola Menchelli & Heather Watkins


Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College
On view February 16—May 14
Reception and artist talk: Saturday, February 25 at 2:00 pm, Reed Chapel, Eliot Hall

 

The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, is proud to present Dark Moves: Fabiola Menchelli & Heather Watkins. This intimate exhibition consists of newly-commissioned work by Mexico City artist Fabiola Menchelli and Northwest artist Heather Watkins.

Saturday, February 25 at 2:00 pm, Reed Chapel, Eliot Hall
Conversation with artists Fabiola Menchelli and Heather Watkins, and exhibition curator Stephanie Snyder, followed by a public reception at the Cooley.

On view February 16—May 14
The Cooley is open to the public Thursday—Sunday, 12:00 to 5:00 pm.
Nestled in the Reed College library, it is always free. Families are welcome!

Menchelli and Watkins are artists deeply invested in the sensory and perceptual possibilities of light—along with its orbital complements, darkness and shadow. With artistic methodologies drawn from poetry, cosmogony, and scientific experimentation, the artists modulate the luminal in pursuit of unknown outcomes. Resultant forms of disappearance, reversal, and refraction communicate across the entirety of the Cooley—particularly in the center, where a hexagonal room with open ends echoes the internal angles and shadows of Menchelli and Watkins’ work.​​ As viewers move through, and around, the hexagon, their bodies draw the symbol of the lemniscate—the infinity symbol (∞). Dark Moves seeks to emulate the ways that shadow becomes a medium in the artists’ hands—contouring, obscuring, and unfolding their work across the deep, azure walls of the museum.

Menchelli and Watkins employ color, line, and saturation—dematerializing modernist geometries, and transforming planarity into ascending angles and curves. Their experiments produce enigmatic effects and lacunae—voids and folds that touch and trace one another. In Dark Moves, Menchelli brings new dimensionality to her translucent color photograms, made entirely in the dark—folding and manipulating the photosensitive paper. These alchemical agents become embodied sculptures mounted on a stainless steel substructure that thrust their geometric volumes, casting shadows on the wall. In the darkened surroundings of the space, Watkins transforms the dynamic linearity of her ink-based drawings into rising, swooping organic forms that radiate wild shadows. These sculptural forms accompany numinous gold reliefs created by imperceptible forces, and small works on paper that oscillate between a fluid lyricism and darker visions of interior compression.

Over the last two years, the artists and the curator have engaged in an extensive collaborative process, working between Portland and Mexico City. This ongoing conversation has shaped every aspect of the exhibition and its extended programing, including the forthcoming catalog by Mexico City designer Priscila Vanneuville.

In Dark Moves, seeing is not believing. Here, to “see” is to search for ways of knowing that may only be accessed through shadow, the subconscious, and the ancient iconographies of pleasure and pain at the heart of the visual imagination.

More information

Through the Green Veil

Through the Green Veil


Fabiola Menchelli
Material Art Fair, Vol. 9
PROXYCO Gallery, Stand A18
Expo Reforma, CDMX
Feb 9–12, 2023

Through the Green Veil


Fabiola Menchelli
Material Art Fair, Vol. 9
PROXYCO Gallery, Stand A18
Expo Reforma, CDMX
Feb 9–12, 2023

Velar a Verde (Through the Green Veil), 2023
Fabiola Menchelli


Material Art Fair, Vol. 9
PROXYCO Gallery, Stand A18
Expo Reforma, CDMX
February 9th–12th, 2023

 

Through the Green Veil is an installation by Fabiola Menchelli that distances itself from the conventions of the photographic apparatus to expand its languages ​​and functions. The pieces—configured from the folds of the photographic paper itself—lose their “optimal” and impeccable character to take a three-dimensional form. This action proposes a break with the hegemonies of photography: it includes the error as a tool to question the interstices of the image. The work replicates one act—the fold—but in its repetition the gesture is resignified in a space open for negotiation between support, color, light and architecture.

Between the soft gradients appears a curtain framed by the saturation of magenta, a pigment present in the pieces thanks to its opposite: a green filter. The exploration of the limits of hot pink takes an impetuous place that overflows from the art object to the entire space, and directs the viewer’s gaze towards the whites, to the lack of time and content in the image. The white cube refers to that absence present that privileges and sustains the work in question. This tension between pigment, spatiality and gaze is a conscious wink to the actions and prejudices associated with femininity, valid as a female artist. Menchelli subverts the function of the magenta color under a character of accumulation and occupation, and leaves any previous association suspended. The artist leads us towards that middle space between the work and what surrounds it. There is a loss of absolutes that allows us to look at interiority from exteriority and vice versa. The installation becomes a liminal space, a prelude to what is to come.

Laura Orozco

Arroniz ZONA MACO

Arroniz ZONA MACO


ZONA MACO, 2023
Arroniz Gallery, Booth C109
Centro Citibanamex, Ciudad de México
February 8 – 12, 2023

Arroniz ZONA MACO


ZONA MACO, 2023
Arroniz Gallery, Booth C109
Centro Citibanamex, Ciudad de México
February 8 – 12, 2023

Fabiola Menchelli, Omar Barquet, Madeline Jiménez, Omar Rodríguez-Graham, Sergio Gutiérrez, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Pablo López Luz, Mauro Giaconi.

ZONA MACO, 2023
Arroniz Gallery, Booth C109
Centro Citibanamex, Ciudad de México
February 8 – 12, 2023

 

Imaginar la Imagen

Imaginar la Imagen


Imaginar la Imagen
Escuela Superior de Cine @escine_mx
Mesones 54, Centro Histórico, CDMX
Inauguración Miércoles 1 de Febrero a las 6pm
1 al 28 de Febrero 2023
L – V de 10 a 17h.

Imaginar la Imagen


Imaginar la Imagen
Escuela Superior de Cine @escine_mx
Mesones 54, Centro Histórico, CDMX
Inauguración Miércoles 1 de Febrero a las 6pm
1 al 28 de Febrero 2023
L – V de 10 a 17h.

Imaginar la Imagen
Escuela Superior de Cine @escine_mx
Mesones 54, Centro Histórico, CDMX
Inauguración Miércoles 1 de Febrero a las 6pm
1 al 28 de Febrero 2023
L – V de 10 a 17h.

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algún paso por el espacio 

algún paso por el espacio 

Proyecto Pícaro
10 de febrero al 25 de marzo
Parral 32, Colonia Condesa, CDMX
Horarios de la galería: jueves y viernes 5-7pm, sábado 3-5pm, o por previa cita
Inauguración: 10 de febrero de 7 – 9

a ppr oc he Paris

a ppr oc he Paris


I carry all the names I’m given
Fabiola Menchelli 
Marshall Gallery at
a pp roc he
10 — 13 November 2022
Le Molière, 22 rue Bisson, Paris

a ppr oc he Paris


I carry all the names I’m given
Fabiola Menchelli 
Marshall Gallery at
a pp roc he
10 — 13 November 2022
Le Molière, 22 rue Bisson, Paris

 

Helio

Helio


SPACE DD47
Fondamenta Zattere Ai Saloni 47, Venezia. 
Oct 22 – Nov 29, 2022.

Helio


SPACE DD47
Fondamenta Zattere Ai Saloni 47, Venezia. 
Oct 22 – Nov 29, 2022.

HELIO is a group exhibition of Mexican artists who have employed the use of traditional heliogravure in their practice. Dating back to the 19th century, heliogravure is a photographic printing process where a copper plate is exposed to a film-positive, then etched, and run through a traditional printing press that leaves an image on paper.

For more information download the PDF from the show.