Gabriella Mangano & Silvana Mangano: In The Stillness of Shadows

Overview

Twins.  Freaky deaky twins. The Mangano Sisters are identical twins who draw. They make videos and performances about the nature of drawing and their relationship to each other. It would be cliched and lazy to suggest that because they are twins they seem to be symbiotically, almost telepathically, linked. But they do.

Their artworks usually involve them being gently supportive of each other while performing simple tasks and rituals. It kind of reminds you of those scenes in Jane Campion films where two bosom friends braid each others hair in a field of lilacs while Harvey Keitel wanders around offscreen with no pants on. Gently comforting but also slightly sinister.

Their new body of work In The Stillness Of Shadows opens at Anna Schwartz Gallery on October 2.