“Find a lover through getting lost inside a unicellular dream. … Listen to flowers, music, and break the waters of a seahorse. Get wetter and wetter and wetter and wetter…”
Review
Mimosa Echard. Sporal
April 15 – September 4, 2022
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Audio Drops.
“We could call it love … Or maybe I just fuck the shut up
And you come and find me.”
Pictorial hallucinations. Visual ecstasy out of lace, stone fragments, comic scenes, plants, satellite images. A collaged wall.
A digital animation begins projecting on the fabric. A micro-biological landscape: enhanced drops, spurs, pistils.
“Come and find me.” (Here?)
Vastness. Pre- and after history, Alpha and Omega. A window fragment in the wall. Space sounds. A feeling of Security. [We all want love, non?]
“The only thing I can accept from a stranger are compliments. … Planet earth is constantly decomposing and recomposing on the surface … Take some of my oil if it’s not too much for your swiftly bleeding heart.”
Cosmic wisdom, or: get lost in the meta-/universe.
An abandoned camp-site of rolled pillows. Signature Mimosa Echard: pastel colours, glitter, black and neon pink; vacuumed pills, tulle and plastic, junk aesthetic. Let’s have a party in this second universe.
Rainfalls of pearls. Broken threads [and dreams], a hallucinatory retreat, between childhood/girlishness and future. And always this rose complexion.
“Repulsion so often means attraction.”
Living materials, it seems. Matter-ials. Meta-real. Mimosa Echard’s practice is characterized by incorporating natural materials such as flowers and seeds into compositions of fabric, pearls, plastic, make-up and paint. With Sporal she embraced the digital.
A dildo is a nose is a Duchamp. Champion the readymade.
I think this is the Louise Bourgeois of the 21st century.
Mimosa Echard’s open-source video-game accompanying the exhibition can be downloaded via www.sporal.net. Find more information on Mimosa Echard on the website of the Palais de Tokyo, via Galerie Chantal Crousel, as well as the artist’s Instagram-account @mimosaechard !
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