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Mimosa Echard

b. 1986, France

Mostly cloudy 4, 2023

Canvas, anti-radiation fabric, aluminium foil, acrylic transparent varnish, synthetic rainbow organza

235 x 235 x 3 cm

The making of Mostly cloudy 4 involves Mimosa Echard attaching a layer of anti-radiation fabric onto a stretched canvas, such that the chemical reaction between the two materials wears down the canvas to reveal an oxidised copper colour, filtered through a layer made of rainbow organza. Despite the anti-radiation fabric’s supposed protective qualities in shielding the user from harmful radiation, such as from our phones and computers, here it indisputably brings about distress, as the frame of acidic green seeps into the layers below. Yet, it is exactly the interactions that the fabric has with the other materials that generate new substances possibly circumventing the current perceptible limits of our technologically abundant world, stimulating our desire for surplus but never actually satiating it. In this way, Echard utilises such processes of mediation to seek out new ways to address the various intersecting issues brought about from people’s biological compulsions and the current technological landscape.

Photo: Hugo Aymar

Mimosa Echard (b. 1986) is a French visual artist exploring intersections and juxtapositions between nature and pop culture as they coexist in a hybrid ecosystem. Through her multidisciplinary practice ranging from painting and sculpture to video and digital, Echard’s works create fictional realms with a psychedelic aesthetic through the accumulation and assemblage of objects and images, contemplating on the life of imperceptible elements and objects. Her upbringing in Cévennes also greatly influences her practice, as the region is known for its counter cultural and community experiments. Thus, her works are also collaborative, as she believes that it is a means of creating collective experiences beyond institutional control. Graduating from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in 2010, Echard has presented solo exhibitions in arts institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022), and the Collection Lambert, Avignon (2021). She is also the 2022 recipient of the Marcel Duchamp Prize.

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