Désirée Nakouzi De Monte and Andrea Parenti of Collezione Nancy Delroi embody an Italo-Lebanese duo.
Their practice has taken shape over a decade of collaboration as co-directors of MRZB Art Group, active between Amsterdam and Turin (2014–2024), and, since 2024, as the authors of Collezione Nancy Delroi, based between Milan and Beirut.
Their works articulate their language through the détournement of clichés and the tensions of a performative community built on the brink of rupture within contemporary society. Grimy collages, made from dismantled sofas, reconfigure the authority of the Old Master through the trauma and obsolescence of domestic remnants. A mise-en-scène of furniture fragments – emptied symbols of the middle class – is assembled into compositions that are pathetic yet deliberate, with the aim of evoking new cult-like imaginaries by reshaping the dominant narrative.
Collezione Nancy Delroi is envisioned as...
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