Gabriella and Silvana Mangano: Of Objects or Sound

Overview

If you happened to be in Moscow last year for the city’s 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art (and why wouldn't you have been?), you may have spotted the ever-compelling video work of Queensland-born twins Gabriella and Silvana Mangano. Now, after another period away completing an artist residency in New York with the prominent not-for-profit International Studio and Curatorial Program, the duo is back at the Anna Schwartz Gallery at Carriageworks, exhibiting new video works freshly inspired by their time in the Big Apple.

Like their past collaborations, the videos that make up Of Objects or Sound draw on the relationship between body, space and time — though here the overriding focus is on found objects. Sheets, rods, wheels, balls — forgotten and thrown away — have been radically reinterpreted, lending structure to the unchoreographed performances that play out to disjointed music of repeated beats, in and out of sync.

Of Objects or Sound is only showing until July 18, so drop into the Anna Schwartz Gallery to get a taste of the sisters’ renowned video art before they jet off again — this time to the TarraWarra Biennial in Victoria.

Image from Gabriella and Silvana Mangano's Performance Compositions for Sculpture (8) (2014), single channel video. The gallery is open Wednesday – Friday, 10am – 6pm and Saturdays 1pm – 5pm.