Commission from Matt’s Gallery for Mattflix
Chana and Gioia is Part 2 of the ‘Dubinski Quartet’

In January 2012, Anne Bean left London for over a year, forgoing any communication with people in her life and with just a bag, limited financial resources and the name Chana Dubinski. This name related to her Lithuanian/ Jewish past and was familiar to her from her Zambian childhood. She set out to open up an unknowable trajectory and to create a reconfigured life structure. Through a chance event, after several peripatetic months, she ended up in a small Midland town. She rented a cottage in which she created works throughout the building, calling the overall installation ‘A Transpective.’ Her close friend Gioia Meller Marcovicz invited her to show this exhibition in her Venetian palazzo. This installation became an intrinsic part of the palazzo reception room and library during the Venice Biennale, 2013 and also provided the context for two collaborative performances which took place at the opening and the closing of the exhibition in which Chana Dubinski the ‘artist’ and Gioia Meller Marcovicz the ‘gallerist’ embraced these roles, interacting with the public. The video ‘Chana and Gioia,’ commissioned by Mattflix, edited with Alex Eisenberg, views this trajectory from several perspectives.