An intriguing exhibition of the collaborative work of artists and twin sisters Gabriella and Silvana Mangano, it featured performance, drawing, video, sound and installation work created by the pair over the previous several years. Curator Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow said the exhibition offered the opportunity to view the poetic and enigmatic work of the Mangano sisters in great depth.

‘The Mangano sisters draw together in space: in the studio, with chairs on some days and with pencil on others, they draw with paper, they draw on film and in fields of grass, with lengths of black crepe streamers flying in the wind’, Barlow said.

‘A number of the sisters’ video performance works explore both their intuitive responses to drawing and to each other’s movements. They display an uncanny ability to communicate silently. Their gestures appear at the same time highly-choreographed and entirely spontaneous. Visitors to the exhibition will also have the opportunity to view a major new and hypnotic ceiling projection.’

Public Programs:
Free Lunchtime Art Forum with Gabriella and Silvana Mangano
Wednesday 3 June

Exhibition Catalogue:
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano

^{Image: Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, installation view, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2009. Photo: John Brash}