Gabriella MANGANO and Silvana MANGANO have created numerous video works in which the body’s movement and its relationship with the
landscape are depicted in an abstract way, with the artists themselves as models. There is no there (2015) was inspired by the “Blue Blouse,” a political
propaganda theatre movement which spread across the Soviet Union in the mid-1920s. During that period, news of various kinds was conveyed to the people in the form of accessible theatrical performances, through the medium of actors’ bodies. Here the artists extract poses and gestures from images in the contemporary news media, and reenact them through the medium of
multiple women’s bodies.

Performance related to the exhibition work. Current news is portrayed with actions, gestures, and a live sound component by composer Daniel JENATSCH choreographed through the body.

There is no there, 2015 / Single-channel video / Collection of the artist / Courtesy of Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne