Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano were born in Stanthorpe, Queensland in 1972. Gabriella completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2001, and Silvana completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2003. Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano create performance videos that address the interrelation between body, time and space. The environment of each video holds a different sensibility that instructs the performance. Most of the videos present a sculptural element to the performances whether it is in linear form or the use of mass colour. These sculptural performances embody an interplay between body and object and body and architecture /landscape. Their bodies at times are extensions of these sculptural forms or dissimulated as sculptural objects. Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano are represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Neon, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, (2010); In the stillness of shadows, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, (2009); and If...so...then..., Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, (2008).
Selected group exhibitions include: Short Sharp Shocks, Barbican, London, (2011); 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, the Trickster, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea, Multiplicities, Before and After Science: The 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, (2010); What I think About When I Think About Dancing, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, Double Take, Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, (2009); Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, The Wandering Line: Thinking Through Drawing, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, (2008); Move on Asia, Traveling Exhibition, Asia Group Show, Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, (2007).
