Silverstein Photography Lecture: Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens

Join the Undergraduate Fine Arts Department for the 2016 iteration of the Howard A. Silverstein and Patricia Bleznak Silverstein Photography Lecture Series, featuring artists Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens. This public lecture program is focused on supplementing the wide-ranging photography curriculum that is available to Penn students as well as to engage the vast arts-based community on campus and the wider Philadelphia community. 

Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens have developed a collaborative practice that combines a concise approach to the form and construction of the art object with a desire to make ideas visible. Spanning across multiple media, including video, performance and installation, their work explores the material, affective and sensory dimensions of experience that cannot be fully translated into signs or systems. For several years, they have examined the rationale upon which economic actions are described and represented, and how the logic of economy has come to infiltrate the most intimate aspects of life.

Their work has been shown at the 14th Istanbul Biennial SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms (Istanbul, 2015), La Biennale de Montréal, L'avenir (looking forward) (Montreal, 2014), 27th Images Festival (Toronto, 2014), Manif d’art 7: Quebec City Biennial (Quebec City, 2014), La Filature, Scène Nationale (Mulhouse, France, 2013-14), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Høvikodden, Norway, 2013), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow, 2012), and the 10th Sharjah Biennial (Sharjah, UAE, 2011). Their recent solo exhibitions include VOX - Centre de l'image contemporaine (Montreal, 2014), Trinity Square Video (Toronto, 2014), La Bande Video (Quebec City, 2014), Forrest City Gallery (London, ON, 2013), Monte Vista Projects (Los Angeles, 2012) and G Gallery (Toronto, 2012). Their writings have been published in Le Merle, C-magazine, New Social Inquiry, and Pyramid Power. They have published two artist's books Tools that Measure the Intensity of Passionate Interests (2012) and Spaces of Observation (2012).

They live and work in Montreal and Durham-Sud, Quebec.