Biography
Pablo Lilienfeld is a musician and choreographer. Federico Vladimir is a visual artist. They have been a couple and collaborators since 2014. Their work has become intertwined with their relationship, starting from intimacy to explore representations of collectivity that question hegemonic ways of narrating themselves. “Narrarse es cuidarse,” they tell each other. “To narrate ourselves is to care for each other.”
Through speculative fiction, they attempt to sustain worlds in which the domestic, marginal, recreation and desire converge. In their research into transindividual narratives, they have accessible practices as diverse as synchronized swimming, raving and role-playing. In their performances, videos and installations, they collaborate with family members, friends, lovers, viruses, ghosts and other companions.
In residentie Monica
07.04.2025 – 11.04.2025
Monica is the name of the mothers of both artists. This coincidence has fascinated them since the beginning of their relationship. Both Monicas were born in Argentina in the 1950s as daughters of European war refugees and both emigrated to Spain as adults. Monica Lilienfeld (Pablo’s mother) was a painter who died very young, in 1986. Monica Pezdirc (Fede’s mother) posed nude for her husband’s erotic photographs all her life. Mónica Lilienfeld’s ecofeminist paintings and Mónica Pezdirc’s photographs are the starting point of this speculative telenovela.
With Monica, the artists use role-playing as a performative tool to explore diasporic genealogies that are more focused on becoming than on being. Non-heteronormative horizontal relations become as important as patrilineal verticality; the trees of reproductive genealogy merge into a tentacular genealogy of worldly images.