Installation view of CarianaCarianne, Witness to a Social Drawing, 2005, mixed media installation. Photo courtesy the artists.

    CarianaCarianne are two women that possess a unique collaborative relationship; they believe that they are two individuals who inhabit the same body. They both received their BFA After earning their BFA from the University of Florida (1997), they each pursued graduate studies--Cariana in sculpture from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2001), and Carianne in fiber and material studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2003). Their works in of installation, text, performance and video explore issues of self and self-invention, and the negotiation of relations between themselves within their own physical body that gesture to issues of relations with political and social bodies comprising many persons. The resulting work challenges the everyday distinctions between issues such as life and death, mind and body, and self and other, the known and unknown that we take for granted.

   CarianaCarianne were selected for The Jentel Artist Residency Program (Banner, WY) and The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Residency Program (Omaha, NE) in 2006 and The Hungarian Multicultural Center Residency Program (Budapest, Hungary) in 2005. Their solo exhibitions include Selected Works, Croxhapox Gallery, Ghent, Belgium (2006), CarianaCarianne, Zarathustra, Nietzsche and the Son of God, Polvo Gallery, Chicago, IL (2006), Management of Expectations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2004); Offerings, Chicago Cultural Center (2004), Borders, Croxhapox Gallery, Ghent, Belgium (2004); and She Is Me/Where Our Eyes Meet, Polvo Gallery, Chicago, IL (2003). Group exhibitions include Haunted States, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO (2006), Lineage, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (2005); Basics 2, Croxhapox Gallery, Ghent Belgium (2005); Fraser Taylor and CarianaCarianne: The Assembled Line, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL (2004); European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany (2003); Terrorist Art: Protesting War, Polvo Gallery, Chicago, IL (2003); Occurrences: The Performative Aspects of Video, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL (2003); and Split International Film Festival, Split, Croatia (2002).

More Information:

http://www.carianacarianne.com/homepage.html
http://www.subaltern.org/carianne.html
http://www.croxhapox.com/carianacarianne.html