Mimosa Echard, Escape more, exhibition view, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022). Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel. Photo: Aurélien Mole. © Mimosa Echard/ADAGP, Paris (2022).
Nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2022, Mimosa Echard has conceived an “ambiguous architectural object” for this group exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Oscillating between the sublime and the contemptible, this “lachrymal” perception machine, or desiring screen, produces visual flows, reflecting those of our liquid society.
Mimosa Echard’s work offers unique combinations, with the organic encountering the technological and synthetic. This ambivalent pharmacopoeia infuses a shape-shifting body of work—video, painting, sculpture, installation–that draws from pop culture and psychedelic counterculture. Often produced through collaborations with different creators, including writers and musicians, her pieces trace a material history of tactility that surreptitiously points to another story, just as profoundly political.
