Monubrid
Nicole Antebi


The monuments in the Monubrid drawing set are grouped according to striking similarities in architectural form among disparate cultural and religious sites.   Although the emphasis is on similarity, the Monubrids remain two separate, contradictory entities with the implication that the two monuments were once conjoined twins separated at the time of their inception.   Monuments are typically built as permanent structures from the ground up, level and grafted to the earth.   The Monubrid set references: the rootless dweller, a temporal, cross-pollenization of different cultures without a specific homeland.

Nicole Antebi is a Los Angeles based artist working primarily in the form of models and proposals for impossible architecture. She currently teaches at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising as well as National University. Her work was recently shown at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.