Collezione Nancy Delroi is an artistic duo founded by Désirée Nakouzi De Monte and Andrea Parenti in Milan-March 2024. Their practice was shaped over a decade of collaboration as co-directors of MRZB Art Group, active between Amsterdam, Turin, and Milan.

Collezione Nancy Delroi’s practice articulates its language through the détournement of clichés and the tensions of a performative community, built on the edge of the rupture of contemporary society.
Grimy collages made from dismantled sofas reconfigure the authority of the Old Master in the trauma and obsolescence of domestic residue; A misé-en-scene—furniture fragments, emptied middle-class symbols—assembled into pathetic yet deliberate compositions that aim to evoke new cult-like imaginary.

In 2025, the duo launched a long-term film project, first presented in March at Collezione Nacy Delroi. The work unfolds as an ongoing process—episodes, scenes, framees, dialogue—produced by the duo and shaped in collaboration with the actors themselves, who perform in the scenettes.
The film I Kills You Second—a study in minimalist social tension, marked by repetitive gestures and a weary elegance—stages a silent drama featuring characters shaped around non-professional performers.
The camera exists solely to document the performance, void of cinematographic aesthetics or emotional framing, adhering instead to strict dogmatic principles.
In Anna Smoking, the performer smokes with her toes, seated on a custom-built leather sofa designed to contain her body, within a tunnel-like space that acts as the architectural negative of a bourgeois living room.
The aesthetics of collapse take center stage: it is a work that questions the radical trauma of aesthetics, performativity, and desire—never fully satisfied.

Collezione Nancy Delroi is also conceived as a house-gallery and officina. Founded in 2024, located in Viale Bligny—Milan. Directed by Nakouzi and Parenti. The presentations aim to explore new formats — through open-ended creation, formalization, friction, including a variety of exhibitions, events, and situations, shaped through self-organized programmes — functioning as experimental frameworks.

COLLEZIONE NANCY DELROI
Désirée Nakouzi De Monte & Andrea Parenti