Bombon Projects, Barcelona x Cordova, Barcelona
Agnes Essonti Luque, Mona Varichon
For the 2024 edition of Art-o-Rama Bombon Projects and Cordova present a shared booth with a series of photographic and mixed media works through a dialogue with artists Agnes Essonti Luque (Barcelona, 1996) and Mona Varichon (Paris, 1989).
Agnes Essonti Luque is a Cameroonian and Spanish artist whose work delves into fundamental issues of identity, culture, and ancestry. Through her work, Luque explores and challenges the complexities of cultural belonging and identity using a variety of artistic media, including photography, video, and performance. These media become tools with which she configures and reconstructs her own memories, offering an introspective view of her heritage and experiences. Deeply influenced by decolonial movements and activism, Essonti Luque’s work addresses themes of self-representation, narratives of identity and belonging, and food politics providing a platform for reflection and dialogue on cultural representation and resistance. Agnes Essonti Luque resides and works in Hospitalet de Llobregat. Her academic background includes studies in Photography in London, a postgraduate degree in Culture and Thought of Black Peoples, and a master’s degree in Photography. Essonti’s work has been shown in international exhibitions, including 1384 Days Wide at Rencontres de Bamako 2015, 14th Dakar Biennale OFF and XI Lanzarote Art Biennial. In 2023 she produced the performance Bayam Sellam, La Bissaperie at the Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza and in the MNCARS.
Mona Varichon is a Franco-Egyptian artist and translator based in Paris and New York City who received her MFA from ArtCenter (Pasadena, CA) in 2018. Her work uses advertisement, social media, popular culture, art history and ‘amateur’ art forms to both chronicle and comment on our present moment. Her photographs, films and performances archive, pay homage to, or contextualize major cultural events, as well as intimate experiences that she captures or puts on display in order to make them shareable. Her pieces circulate on YouTube, in various stores, mailboxes, interiors, cinemas and art spaces. Recent exhibits include Air de Paris and the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), the Capc musée d’art contemporain (Bordeaux, France), the Van Gogh Foundation (Arles, France), the Villa Arson (Nice, France), Alienze (Vienna, Austria), the Sifang Art Museum Satellite (Shanghai, China), the National Gallery (Prague, Czech Republic), Cocotte (Treignac, France), and The Vanity Gallery, the Redcat Theatre, Kristina Kite and The Egyptian Theater (Los Angeles, CA). With the FRAC Lorraine (Metz, France), she translated the catalogs of artists Pippa Garner, Betye Saar, Christina Ramberg and Cécile B. Evans into French. She was nominated for the 2024 Ricard Prize by curator Arlène Berceliot-Courtin and will take part in the Prize’s exhibition in September 2024 at the Fondation Ricard, Paris.
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