Mimosa Echard has been named the laureate of the 2022 Marcel Duchamp Prize.

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. For the Prize, she has designed an “ambiguous architectural object”. Shifting between the sublime and the contemptible, this “lacrimal” perception machine, or desiring screen, produces uninterrupted flows, reflecting those of our liquid society.