Mono is happy to invite you to our next exhibition ๐จ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ by Alejandra Lรณpez Martinez @ale_looma and Lola Colmez @innfamouslolita
Opening on Friday 15th of May, 6pm to 10pm
15.05.2026-17.05.2026
Lightness becomes disobedience.
It rebels against normative forms of femininity and the constant demand to void meaning from play. It does so through found fabrics, screenshots, suspended drawings, videos saturated with pink and fragile structures that seem to exist in a tension between play and construction, between childhood and adulthood.
In Colmez and Lรณpezโs works, marginal materials and seemingly light-hearted acts become tools of protest: more unstable, affective, subversive. Sillyness, dreams, curiosity and a certain childlike aesthetic do not request justification, but function as strategies to evade the logics of control, maturity and performance that have historically defined female subjectivity. The French and Spanish artists developed this collaboration through a residency at Mono, where their divergent backgrounds merged into a shared creative process based on experimentation rather than fixed practices.
A Double Bloom thus constructs a space in which fragility and frivolity cease to be passive categories, transforming instead into forms of resistance and freedom. What emerges is not innocence, but a form of rejection: a new way of inhabiting softness, excess and play without apology.
Text by Chiara Bello @chiarabelllo
hard things holding soft things, and sometimes soft things holding hard ones.
Various screen prints on fabric
Pancetta beautifully bound
Toy shop selling its different display stations
@dayna.casey letting go off some things in 2026
@julo.lo 's photo skills supported by a pillar in the street
baby me, and me now
mushrooms in a tree
@marnixvanuum with the new hat i made him
Bosera, or post spaghetty tomato mouth
Over the next few months I'm artist in residence at the @grafische_werkplaats , thanks to Makersregeling Den Haag financial support
Iโve been collecting stories, drawings, and texts that describe moments of ecstasy or sensory disruption โ moments where the boundary between self and other becomes porous.
I'll be making some kites and costumes and can't wait to share more ๐งก
I'm so excited to have the opportunity to spend time playing with screen printing as an extension of drawing, and learning specific textile printing techniques.
