How to recover after a toxic relationship. Monica Marioni's #LetMeGo project.

From Sept. 8 to 28, 2022, the Caldogno (Vicenza) Bunker, a German military structure built in 1943 and later converted into an exhibition space, will host the new #LASCIAMIANDARE, the project/container by Monica Marioni (Conegliano, 1972), curated by Maria Savarese, in collaboration with Maria Rosa Sossai and Igor Zanti, and the contribution of psychologist Stefano Di Carlo. #LASCIAMIANDARE tells of the progressive regaining of one’s judgment, of the correct perspective of self and the world, at the end of a toxic relationship. Starting from a personal experience, the project is divided into a body of works that have as their theme the psychological dynamics emblematic of emotional dependence. The Vicenza stage of #LASCIAMIANDARE, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai, transforms the bunker into a prison-house in which the physical and psychological violence exercised by men against women during the pandemic is portrayed in an articulation of works such as videos, installations, photographs and drawings.

The path opens in the first space, at the entrance to the bunker, where a kind of Wunderkammer is set up consisting of drawings, small-format photographs, objects and short videos made during the period of segregation. The architecture of the space allegorically reproduces everyday reality as it was experienced and perceived by the prey. Each environment becomes a symbol of a different form of prevarication: a telephone that rings continuously, a metronome that marks time, a school desk, a cot, an empty refrigerator, and a shower column from which water continuously runs down. Completing the exhibition is the video work Olia, which is a representation in a universal key of all kinds of conflicts between predator and prey.

“Recognizing the other for what he really is and does, with regard to one’s own and others,” Monica Marioni points out, “is the level of awareness that makes it possible to analyze the ’monster,’ looking him straight in the face with the objectivity of one who knows in detail his responsibilities. It is a very high point to which to exhort every victim, it is the real appeal that this project wants to make to anyone, man or woman, who has personally lived through experiences of this nature. To make visible, or rather ’sensitive’ what an individual prostrated by strategic interpersonal violence goes through is the further impetus, the extra step that art wants to take to amplify and spread this profound and painful awareness achieved.”

The catalog in which the entire artistic and exhibition narrative will flow is dedicated to Vittorio Carità. The next scheduled event in November 2022 will be held at the Complesso Conventuale di San Domenico Maggiore, Naples (now DOMA museum).

Monica Marioni was born in Conegliano Veneto (Treviso) in 1972 but moved at a very young age to the Vicenza area where she still lives a few months a year. A multidisciplinary artist, Marioni made art a profession following her meeting with Antonina Zaru, a gallery owner, patron and former friend and accomplice of internationally renowned artists such as Nam June Paik, Luca Pignatelli, Giovanni Frangi, Velasco, and Salvatore Garau. It was she who first recognized Monica’s potential, prompting her to take her first steps starting in Naples with a group show at Palazzo Crispi. The multi-year collaboration culminates with an invitation to create a monumental work as part of a collateral event at the 53rd Venice Art Biennale. This is how he created Ego, an installation and video art united in a single work. In moving from abstractionism to figuration, and from painting to other forms she lands in “digital painting” with the project Ninfe, presented in Vicenza on the initiative of the Fondazione Vignato per l’Arte, and in IO SONO, set up in Milan at the Fondazione Stelline, curated by Oliver Orest Tschirky, during which she encounters performance for the first time, hosting the German Butoh dancer Imre Thormann.

With REBUS in 2013, Monica Marioni returns to the material in mixed media to give body to an ethereal and enigmatic narrative, a prelude to the iconicity of the subsequent works of "FAME!", a project conceived for EXPO 2015 - Feed the planet, but soon untethered to tell all the “fami” peculiar to the contemporary individual, through the co-presence of paintings, photos, installations and performative moments. With FAME! at PAN in Naples, he began his collaboration with curator Maria Savarese through the film project LE UMANE PAURE: starting with a series of performances by the artist, director Nicolangelo Gelormini shot a 14-minute art film. The latest project, HOTEL MO.MA, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai and presented in February 2019 in Vicenza, marked a decisive move toward a more minimal and conceptual, installation and performance art, closely linked to a fundamental figure of Italian architecture such as Carlo Scarpa. In all its forms, Monica Marioni’s artistic attention is always focused on the human figure, which she represents with a wide and varied expressive range apt to narrate the fears, anxieties and neuroses of the contemporary individual.

How to recover after a toxic relationship. Monica Marioni's #LetMeGo project.

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