Artists: Maude Léonard-Contant & Monia Ben Hamouda
Exhibition title: NYX
Venue: Instituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy
Date: May 16 – June 29, 2024
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Instituto Svizzero, Milan
Note: Exhibition text is available here . Attilia Fattori Franchini in conversation with Monia Ben Hamouda, Maude Leonard-Contant, and Gioia Dal Molin is available here
Maude Léonard-Contant, Monia Ben Hamouda, NYX, installation view at Istituto Svizzero, Milano, 2024. © Giulio Boem
Maude Léonard-Contant, Monia Ben Hamouda, NYX, installation view at Istituto Svizzero, Milano, 2024. © Giulio Boem
Maude Léonard-Contant, Unfathomable volumes of water, 2024. Engobe, glazed stoneware
Maude Léonard-Contant, A, 2024. Fluorite, Himalaya salt, selenite, tempered steel 5 × 29 × 40 cm
Maude Léonard-Contant, Unfathomable volumes of water, 2024. Engobe, glazed stoneware
Maude Léonard-Contant, Unfathomable volumes of water, 2024. Engobe, glazed stoneware
Maude Léonard-Contant, Oh, what a flood last summer, 2024. Galvanized steel letters in various sizes, coated with healing clay, poppy petals, cattails fruits. Maude Léonard-Contant, Unfathomable volumes of water, 2024. Engobe, glazed stoneware
Maude Léonard-Contant, Oh, what a flood last summer, 2024. Galvanized steel letters in various sizes, coated with healing clay, poppy petals, cattails fruits
Maude Léonard-Contant, Oh, what a flood last summer, 2024. Galvanized steel letters in various sizes,
coated with healing clay, poppy petals, cattails fruits. Monia Ben Hamouda, Burial of all meanings, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, turmeric, enamel. Dimensions variable
Monia Ben Hamouda, Burial of all meanings, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, turmeric, enamel. Dimensions variable
Monia Ben Hamouda, Burial of all meanings, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, turmeric, enamel. Dimensions variable. Maude Léonard-Contant, Oh, what a flood last summer, 2024. Galvanized steel letters in various sizes,
coated with healing clay, poppy petals, cattails fruits
Monia Ben Hamouda, Burial of all meanings, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, turmeric, enamel. Dimensions variable
Maude Léonard-Contant, Giving her utmost at dressing the dead chicken, 2024. Peacock feathers, porcupine quills, rooster feathers, silk, stoneware 13 × 50 × 35 cm. Monia Ben Hamouda, Rage moving through generations, 2024. Charcoal, oil pastels, ink on ivory paper 29.7 × 21 cm
Maude Léonard-Contant, Monia Ben Hamouda, NYX, installation view at Istituto Svizzero, Milano, 2024. © Giulio Boem
Monia Ben Hamouda, Rage moving through generations, 2024. Charcoal, oil pastels, ink on ivory paper 29.7 × 21 cm
Maude Léonard-Contant, Giving her utmost at dressing the dead chicken, 2024. Peacock feathers, porcupine quills, rooster feathers, silk, stoneware 13 × 50 × 35 cm
Maude Léonard-Contant, How the heat wilts my silks, 2024. Glazed stoneware, pleated silk organza, porcupine quills, dupion silk, silk cocoons 15 × 48 × 35 cm