Monica Sarobba’s practice is a visceral act of resistance born during chemotherapy—a vital need to dismantle and rebuild an identity shaken by illness. Driven by a deep sense of impermanence, she stages fragmented female figures within abstract urban landscapes, defined as "unstable architectures." Above them, fluid hand-painted forms emerge as an overflowing, visible voice of inner emotional states.
This urgency materializes through "staged scanography": ephemeral analog collages of hand-recolored fashion fragments and raw drawings composed directly on the scanner bed. Once digitally captured, the physical artwork is permanently dismantled, leaving the digital file as the only lasting heartbeat of a flash in time.
Trained at the Academies of Verona and Bologna under Bruno Munari’s tradition, her work captures the exact collision between rigid structures and a fluid self. Today, her aesthetic lives between two opposite muses: the protective silence of her urban garden in Verona and the repetitive, nocturnal patterns of Berlin.
Recent group exhibitions include:
Out of the blue - Superb Gallery of Art, NYC, 22/25 August 2024
Love untold - St. Michael+All Angel, Shoreditch, London, Sep 2024
Deja-vu - The Citadel fine art gallery, Kent (UK), April 2024
Calm in chaos - Brick Lane Gallery, London, March 2024
Hallo Friedrichshainer! - self organized event on the streets of Friedrichshain, Berlin. June 2023.
Piano Palette - live streaming event, New York, 5 March 2023 with the artwork "Ginko".
VIAF16th Venice International Art Fair -Palazzo Bembo 5-23 Dec 2022
Donne, vita, libertà - on artistiunitiperlapace.com, virtual exhibit October /November 2022
Door to Door - LiteHaus Galerie, Berlin 8-24 September 2022
The Garden of Loss and Triumph - NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam, 1-18 September 2022
