Bibi-Mimi Monday Memo

August 27 - October 13, 2024

We are delighted to extend a warm welcome-back to Bibiana Huang Matheis and Mimi Czajka Graminski as they return to Window On Hudson to share their years-long remote collaboration: Bibi-Mimi Monday Memo.  “Hudson Memo” gives us the opportunity to both take a peek into their archive from hundreds of hours of collaboration and to view new work which they have created specifically for the windows.  

How does Bibi-Mimi Monday Memo work?  Once a week, during the same hour of the day, each artist works in their separate studio with the intention of tuning into the same creative channel.  They do not speak or make any kind of plans beforehand, but at the end of each session they compare notes on their inspiration, their state of mind and the work produced.  

They have found, over the course of the project, that not only are there connections in the work produced but also in their emotions, recent experiences and in odd little coincidences surrounding the sessions.

Monday Memo began as “Friday Adventures,” where for 50 weeks Bibi and Mimi included journal entries and Bibiana’s corresponding poems with their work.  When the Covid-19 lockdown came in March of 2020 they found Mondays to be a more natural day for their collaboration, and “Bibi-Mimi Monday Memo” was born.  The project has continued to teach them to follow their intuition and trust their instincts. These lessons have carried over into their individual art work and into their lives.  

Bibi and Mimi continue to be amazed, delighted, and reassured by this weekly venture.  They have found that their recent individual works have also coincided in a variety of ways.  One way is they both began transforming household refuse into artwork. The storefront windows will showcase a large installation created from these altered, repurposed materials.