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Welcome to Air de Tranny! When I look around, I start to think that Mona Filleul has built a city here. In Mona’s city, although there’s no places to go shopping, no business district or luxury hotels, there’s a metal verticality that recalls that of skyscrapers steel frames – their shine, their coldness, their texture and their angles. I can’t quite make out my reflection in the façades of these buildings, but I’m sure that I can glimpse something of our western capital cities, of their ambiguities, perhaps something of their rigidity, too. Mona takes us with her through these stripped back walls to show us what’s going on within. She marks out zones and thresholds, and builds an architecture that’s at once narrative and sentimental, emptying out all the things that usually stay hidden. She even recreates the sky…
Mona is an iconophile, one of those people who venerate images and try to save them from their certain destruction. She learned to paint by l…
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Welcome to Air de Tranny! When I look around, I start to think that Mona Filleul has built a city here. In Mona’s city, although there’s no places to go shopping, no business district or luxury hotels, there’s a metal verticality that recalls that of skyscrapers steel frames – their shine, their coldness, their texture and their angles. I can’t quite make out my reflection in the façades of these buildings, but I’m sure that I can glimpse something of our western capital cities, of their ambiguities, perhaps something of their rigidity, too. Mona takes us with her through these stripped back walls to show us what’s going on within. She marks out zones and thresholds, and builds an architecture that’s at once narrative and sentimental, emptying out all the things that usually stay hidden. She even recreates the sky…
Mona is an iconophile, one of those people who venerate images and try to save them from their certain destruction. She learned to paint by l…
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