Behind a panoramic window, we can make out – or rather we guess, because a liquid flow disturbs the details – a television, canvases, a bit of lace, a stuffed cat… Here is Escape more, the piece thanks to which the visual artist Mimosa Echard received, on October 17, 2022, the Marcel Duchamp Prize, the most prestigious award for contemporary art.
“I think what interested me in the water curtains was their somewhat pop, emotional – but too much – side, which overflows like a sort of sorrow or mechanical but infinite sadness”, explains the 36-year-old artist, who confesses to having been inspired by “water screens” seen… in the frozen aisle of a supermarket!
An impressive “tear machine”
“Everything close to the glass is very sharp, everything farther from it is more and more blurry.
For me, it was a bit like this idea of being almost inside the eye, with strata, like that, of images, sedimentation, memory,” she underlines, detailing what she calls her “tear machine”.
Presented as part of the Paris + fair by Art Basel, which replaces the “old” FIAC, this “ambiguous architectural object” is visible from October 20 to 23, 2022 at the ephemeral Grand Palais in Paris.
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