Caroline Mesquita
Caroline Mesquita (b. 1989, Brest, France) lives and works in Marseille. Her work spans sculpture, installation and stop-motion video, primarily incorporating metals such as sheets of copper and brass, which are altered, oxidised and painted. She is best known for her metallurgic tableaux and installations, sometimes incorporating patinated brass magpies or humanoid sculptures which interact with each other playfully. Her work is as much the artist’s creation as it is autonomous: after folding, squeezing and hammering the metal by hand, then colouring it with ammonia, chloride and various acids, Mesquita relinquishes creative control to forces which oxidise and patinate. In this sense, though they are comprised of lifeless materials, her creations are imbued with their own unique personality.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Verdet bath, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, AT (upcoming), Blue hour, Sala Santa Rita, Rome, IT (upcoming), Eggo, T293, Rome, IT, CuCO & CO, HAB Galerie, Nantes, France (2024), Bourse du travail Centre d’art, Valence (2023), Art Club, Villa Medicis, Rome (2023), Noctambules, CAN, Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2022), and Humans and animals, Union Pacific, Statement Art Basel, Bâle, Switzerland (2021). Selected group exhibitions include: Le sens de l'orientation, Galerie Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, FR, curated by Xavier Veilhan (2024), Future in now, Le Parvis Centre d'art contemporain, Tarbes, FR, Une nouvelle jeunesse (with Laure Prouvost), Contemporaine de Nîmes, FR, curated by Anna Labouze et Keimis Henni, I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Art-o-rama, Union Pacific & sans titre, Marseille, France (2024), Be bee mon manège (with Laure Prouvost), Contemporaine de Nîmes, France (2024), Modernités cosmiques (curated by Michel Gauthier), FondaUon Vasarely, Aix-enProvence, France (2022), and La diosa verde (curated by Dorothée Dupuis), Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico (2021).