«The Catalog of Huts», Monica Biancardi at the Shazar Gallery

The artist’s denunciation starts from the period of the lockdown displayed in a paper map in which the areas highlighted with the dates indicating the closures also report the increased risk of suffering violence. The work which is a real report, albeit artistically represented, born as a world mapping in which the countries take on the appearance of huts and show percentage numbers inside them (which, preceded by a + sign designate the growth, compared to the previous year, of reports of abuse or mistreatment of women) is however illusory, because too many countries – democratic and not – declare completely misleading percentages. The result is therefore the completely bogus and hypocritical character of the statistic, which in the meantime “goes hand in hand with ideology, disguised as a scientific product”. The project is accompanied by a series of drawings of huts engraved on paper and accessories or products of daily use engraved on plexiglass, represented as double-edged weapons that attack the female sphere. The exhibition will remain open until 18 March 2023 from Tuesday to Saturday from 14.30 to 19.30 and by appointment.

Monica Biancardi was born in Naples. She graduated in scenography with an experimental thesis on theater photography. He starts working for important directors (carrying out the activity of teacher at the same time) carrying out personal researches at the same time. The first is «Believing, twenty years of black/white gazes in southern Italy» and was purchased in part together with other various works by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. In 2014 she was invited to the official program of the Mois de la Photo in Paris. Her first public exhibition is «Portraits», inaugurated in Naples in 2003 and then continued around Europe, winning various prizes. Achille Bonito Oliva he invites her to design an entire cell inside the Certosa di Padula during the exhibition “The Works and the Days”. In 2018, on the occasion of the Ritratti exhibition at the Museum of Rome in Trastevere, the volume manodopera was published by the Contrasto publishing house. The “Dolore” project follows, part of the Aldilà artistic project, acquired by the new Naples Metro and installed in the Lala stop. In 2006 she exhibited “Mutamenti” at Castel Sant’Elmo in Naples, which she dedicated to her father (cat. Electa). Sensitive to the theme of cultural integration, for the Al Quds University of Jerusalem, Monica exhibits the work carried out for years in Palestine (cat. Al Quds University) and then in multimedia form at the MAV of Herculaneum «Tra le imagine». In 2009, at the invitation of the Superintendency of Naples, you created a major exhibition entitled “Orientamenti” at the Capodimonte Museum (cat. Shin Art). In October 2012 the MART invites her to exhibit the Habitus project. In 2015 you won the DolomitiArteContemporanee Award. In 2017 she published for the Damiani publishing house “RiMembra”, a project that lasted more than seven years in which the poet collaborates Gabriel Frasca. The work is exhibited at the Nitsch Museum in Naples, at the IIC in Paris during Paris-Photo, at the Santa Maria della Scala Museum in Siena and is chosen to represent La Biennale de la Photographie Italienne at the Aubagne festival in 2018. In March 2019 inaugurates the Punti di Vista project by starting a collaboration with the Shazar Gallery in Naples. One of the polyptychs is acquired by the MADRE of Naples. His works are present in many private collections of contemporary art.