Espace 22 to Present Group Exhibition Exploring Stillness and Contemplation in January
Escape 22
Press Release Details
- Organisation: Escape 22
- Location: Boulevard d’Italie, Monaco
- Attachment: https://www.espace22.mc/index.html
Summary
Monaco’s cultural programme in January will include a new group exhibition at Espace 22 bringing together five European and South American artists. The show places quiet reflection at the heart of the visitor experience, encouraging audiences to slow their pace and engage with works shaped by silence, balance and emotional nuance. It will run from 8 to 31 January.
Monaco’s winter arts season will welcome a reflective new addition in January as Espace 22 hosts a group exhibition devoted to the theme of stillness in contemporary artistic practice. Bringing together five artists from Europe and South America, the exhibition invites visitors to consider silence not as emptiness, but as a space where perception, memory and emotion may unfold.
The exhibition will be open to the public from Thursday 8 to Saturday 31 January at Espace 22 on boulevard d’Italie. A preview evening will take place on 8 January at 18:00, before the venue opens daily from late morning through early evening.
The participating artists work across a range of disciplines, including painting, photography and mixed media. While their visual approaches differ, the works share a restrained and introspective sensibility, offering an experience rooted in contemplation rather than immediacy.
French artist Bénédicte Ansaud presents nocturnal oil paintings created during periods of solitude, informed by a life lived across different cultures and locations. Her canvases explore the relationship between identity and quiet reflection. Romanian photographer Florin Mihai introduces a contrasting visual language, combining monochrome imagery with metallic elements to create symbolic, emotionally charged compositions defined by light and shadow.
Monaco-based Caterina Reviglio Sonnino contributes delicately balanced works inspired by historic ceramic traditions and watercolour techniques, characterised by soft tonal harmonies and a sense of visual calm. Originally from Ukraine and now living in Cannes, actress and self-taught artist Julia Jakonda brings a more narrative dimension, translating inner imagination, the natural world and personal experience into expressive drawings and paintings.
Completing the group is Brazilian artist Arlette Lima De Matos, whose abstract mixed-media works reflect both her background in psychology and a carefully crafted, tactile approach developed between Monaco and the south of France, following the launch of her artistic career in New York.
Designed as an invitation to pause within Monaco’s lively cultural landscape, the exhibition encourages visitors to adopt a slower rhythm, allowing time for quiet observation and emotional resonance.
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