Fabiola Menchelli: I carry all the names I'm given: approche, Paris
Marshall Gallery presents new work with artist Fabiola Menchelli at the sixth edition of the approche salon in Paris - "An independent salon dedicated to artists who experiment with the photographic medium." The tightly curated, boutique art fair runs parallel to Paris Photo with only 14 exhibitors showing innovative solo shows.
We are excited to be back in Paris after three years and joining the elegant event that the approche team has developed over the past decade. And equally so to be sharing Fabiola's most recent work from her series of unique, sculptural C-prints, "I carry all the names I'm given", as the only North American exhibitor in the show.
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Fabiola Menchelli, The liquid skin of the world, 2022 -
Fabiola Menchelli, The taste of pinching sound, 2022
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Fabiola Menchelli, Tie it gently to the exit wound, 2022
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Fabiola Menchelli, To speed up truth, 2022
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Fabiola Menchelli, To time the end, 2022
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Fabiola Menchelli, To weave and destroy I, 2022
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Fabiola Menchelli, A thing with feathers, 2022
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Fabiola Menchelli, We mimic the openness, 2022
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Fabiola Menchelli, Ya no hay río ni Ilanto, 2022
Fabiola Menchelli’s work investigates essential ideas about photography through the language of abstraction. Using light as raw material, her work explores photography as a poetic space, using a wide variety of contemporary strategies and experimental techniques ranging from analog to digital practices. From phenomenology to astronomy, her work seeks to expand the meaning of observing, to expand our perception beyond the limits of our own body in the infinite hopeful attempt to understand our existence. Curated from her most recent body of work “I carry all the names I’m given”, Fabiola Menchelli is presenting an installation of new folded, sculptural color works made for the approche salon.
“There is a conscious distance from the massive and immediate use of photography and the image in Menchelli’s practice. Most of her works come from analog methodologies used mainly during the invention of the medium, which entails a prolonged time and an almost artisanal approach, intertwined with scientific knowledge. The pieces in the series “I carry all the names I’m given” allude to the basis of photography: the recording of light on a sensitive material. Here, the artist folds and unfolds the color photosensitive paper in the darkroom and exposes it to different temporalities of light, which on its way to its final destination passes through a color filter. […]
In the darkroom, Menchelli sees the image she is creating only at the moment of development and fixation, not before. Photography is created blindly, from an almost elusive interaction between memory and the sense of touch.”
– Laura Orozco
Fabiola Menchelli (b. 1983, Mexico City) received an MFA in Photography and Visual Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has exhibited work in recent solo and group shows in the U.S.A., the U.K., Mexico, France and Dubai, among others. Menchelli has participated in numerous artist residencies including at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and Casa Wabi, and teaches at universities across North America. She received the Fulbright – García Robles Fellowship (2011) and the Prize of Acquisition of the XVI Mexican Photography Biennial (2014). Menchelli lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.
