Caroline Mesquita
Caroline Mesquita explores the vitality and complexity of group behavior in many of her sculptural installations and flat metal works. Raw material provides the spark that animates her narrative engagement with notions of religion, embodiment, transformation, sensuality, and sociability. Mesquita’s works are darkened, patinated and roughly textured through an oxidation process. With this technique, Mesquita manipulates the metal like a form of painting. What was once shiny, reflective and glossy is cut, grinded, welded, melted and oxidized to reveal the many elements within; shifting in texture and in tone, becoming matte, green, brown and pink. These material transformations provide a format for storytelling about the human experience and the directness of action and exchange in relationships.
Caroline Mesquita (b. 1989, Brest) lives and works in Paris. She won the 19th Fondation d'entreprise Ricard Prize in 2017. Selected solo exhibitions include SALTS, Birsfelden; 221a, Vancouver; Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris; Kunsteverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen; SpazioA, Pistoia; Centre d’art du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux; Union Pacific, London; Le Bains-Douches, Paris; and 1m3, Lausanne. Mesquita has participated in group exhibitions at venues such as untilthen, Saint Ouen; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; FRAC Ile-de-France, Le Château de Rentilly; Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille; Flax Foundation, Los Angeles; Nicelle Beauchene, New York; 15ème Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris; La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres; Chalet Society, Paris; Monnaie de Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Cité internationale des arts, Paris; and La Loge Brussels, Belgium. In 2018 Mesquita participated in Art Basel's Parcours sector.
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Exhibitions at carlier | gebauer
Texts
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Elisa Linn and Lennart Wolff: Caroline Mesquita, in: Kaleidoscope, Issue #29 Spring 2017.
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Fondation d'entreprise Ricard: Caroline Mesquita "The Ballad" by curator Martha Kirszenbaum, 2017.
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Martha Kirszenbaum in conversation with Caroline Mesquita, for: CURA. Magazine, issue #22, 2016.
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Alena Sokhan: SPACE // An Interview with Caroline Mesquita, in: BerlinArtLink, September 15, 2015
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Mara Hoberman,"Caroline Mesquita", Art Forum, April 2018
Caroline Mesquita, The Machine Room, installation view at Art | Basel PARCOURS 2018, Barfüsserkirche, Basel, Switzerland
Caroline Mesquita, The Machine Room, 2018
digital video, 12 min 22 sec
Caroline Mesquita, Hand 2, 2018
Oxidized brass, 180 x 70 x 40 cm
Caroline Mesquita, Motorbike, 2018
Inox, steel and car paint, 90 x 50 x 150 cm
Caroline Mesquita, Spaceship fish, 2017
steel, stainless steel, resin, car paint, 175 x 90 x 40 cm
Caroline Mesquita, Spaceship chain, 2017
steel, stainless steel, resin, car paint, 90 x 185 x 90 cm
Caroline Mesquita, spaceship stirrup, 2017
steel, stainless steel, resin, car paint, 95 x 120 x 70 cm
Les Bons Sentiments - 19e Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, September 2017.
Photo: Aurélien Mole / Fondation d’entreprise Ricard
THE VISITORS, exhibition view at SALTS, 2017. Gunnar Meier Photography.
THE VISITORS, exhibition view at SALTS, 2017. Gunnar Meier Photography.
The Visitors, 2017, digital video, 22 mins
The Ballad, exhibition view at 221a, Vancouver, Canada, 2017.
The Ballad, exhibition view at 221a, Vancouver, Canada, 2017.
The Ballad, 2017, digital video, 29.06 min
The Ballad, exhibition view at Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, 2017. © Rebecca Fanuele / Fondation d'entreprise Ricard
The Ballad, exhibition view at Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, 2017. © Rebecca Fanuele / Fondation d'entreprise Ricard
Pink Everywhere, exhibition view at Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2016. Photo: Thomas Ganzenmüller, Hannover
Pink Everywhere, exhibition view at Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2016. Photo: Thomas Ganzenmüller, Hannover
Pink Everywhere, 2016, digital video, 8 min
Cream Sacrifice, 2016, ground steel, copper and brass, exhibition view at Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
Cream Sacrifice, 2016, detail, ground steel, copper and brass, exhibition view at Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
Some blue in my mouth, 2016, installation view
Some blue in my mouth, 2016, installation view
Some blue in my mouth, 2016, installation view
Some blue in my mouth, 2016, installation view
Some blue in my mouth, 2016, digital video, 16.51 min, edition of 5 + 2 AP
123 Soleil, 2015, steel, oxidized brass
123 Soleil, 2015, steel, oxidized brass
123 Soleil, 2015, steel, oxidized brass
Dorothée, 2015, Oxidized brass
Lucile, 2015, Oxidized brass
Marie, 2015, Oxidized brass
Clementine, 2015, Oxidized brass
Philotée, 2015, Oxidized brass
Clementine, Dorothée, Lucile, Marie, exhibition view at Le Bal Jaune, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, during fiac!, Paris, 2015
Clementine, Dorothée, Lucile, Marie, exhibition view at Le Bal Jaune, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, during fiac!, Paris, 2015
Dancefloor Baths Bowling Hammam Lake, 2015, Chemically treated brass, 50 x 324 cm
Detail 11, 2015, brass, 67 x 44,9 cm
Detail 12, 2015, copper, 67 x 55,7 cm
Detail 9, 2015, copper, 67 x 45,2 cm
Close-up 1, 2015, oxidixed copper, 50 x 42 cm
Sloths, 2015, oxidized brass, spotlights, sound, 12 parts, variable dimension
Sloths, 2015, oxidized brass, spotlights, sound, 1 of 12 parts, variable dimension
Windsurfers, 2014, oxidized copper, fabric, 140 x 357 x 357 cm, exhibition view
Windsurfers, 2014, oxidized copper, fabric, 140 x 357 x 357 cm, exhibition view
Us, 2014, brass tube, photographs, oxidized brass, installation, variable dimensions
Us, 2014, brass tube, photographs, oxidized brass, installation, variable dimensions, (detail)
Present, 2014, car body, 66 x 45 x 42 cm
Drums, 2014, steel, felt, sound recording, speakers, variable dimensions
Bells, 2014, stainless steel, sound recording, speakers, variable dimensions
Bells, 2014, stainless steel, sound recording, speakers, variable dimensions
Flûte, 2013, stainless steel, steel, sound recording, score, variable dimensions
