Mimosa Echard, Closed eyelids, Overlapping Magisteria: The 2020 Macfarlane Commissions, exhibition view, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2020. Photo: Andrew Curtis.
Mimosa Echard presents a selection of new works in Overlapping Magisteria: The 2020 Macfarlane Commissions, the second edition of a multi-year partnership that supports ambitious projects by contemporary artists. For this exhibition, Mimosa Echard has created Closed eyelids, a series of suspended, illuminated sculptural assemblages composed of thousands of glass beads – or ‘pearls’ – set in dialogue with visceral collage-paintings, membrane-like curtains and soft sculptural floor furnishings which Echard refers to as boudin (or blood sausage). Recalling the conditions of the studio and boudoir, and the seductive, illusory spaces of media and screen cultures, Echard’s glowing mise-en-scene celebrates the pleasure of the senses; revelling in the confusion of interior and exterior, wet and dry, body and space, identification and desire.
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