Caroline Mesquita
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Caroline Mesquita is a sculptor and video artist, mainly working with metal. She creates sculptures likes airplanes, spaceships and motorcycles, all journey in the direction of a radical imagination. Raw material provides the spark that animates her narrative engagement with notions of science fiction, 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. These material transformations provide a format for storytelling about the human experience and the directness of action and exchange in relationships. Either around or using her metallic creations, she also creates videos, sound environments and performance films in which she appears herself.
Caroline Mesquita (b. 1989, Brest) lives and works in Marseille. She won the 19th Fondation d'entreprise Ricard Prize in 2017. Selected solo exhibitions include Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto; Kunsthalle Lissabon; Lisboa; Centre Pompidou, Paris; SALTS, Birsfelden; 221a, Vancouver; Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris; Kunsteverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen; SpazioA, Pistoia; Centre d’art du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux; Le Bains-Douches, Paris; and 1m3, Lausanne. Mesquita has participated in group exhibitions at venues such as Lille 3000, Lille; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; FRAC Ile-de-France; Flax Foundation, Los Angeles; Nicelle Beauchene, New York; 15ème Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris; La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres; Monnaie de Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Cité internationale des arts, Paris; and La Loge Brussels; among others.
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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, La Casa dell'Eremita sul Naviglio, 2019, exhibition view at Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, 2019
Photo: Carlos Tettamanzi- Courtesy Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro
Caroline Mesquita, Soft Evasion (2019), Exhibition view “Future, Former, Fugitive”, at Palais de Tokyo (10.16.19 – 01.05.20)
Courtesy of the artist & carlier|gebauer (Berlin), UNION PACIFIC (London), T293 (Rome)
Photo credit: Nikolai Jakobsen
Caroline Mesquita, Soft Evasion (2019), Exhibition view “Future, Former, Fugitive”, at Palais de Tokyo (10.16.19 – 01.05.20)
Courtesy of the artist & carlier|gebauer (Berlin), UNION PACIFIC (London), T293 (Rome)
Photo credit: Nikolai Jakobsen
Caroline Mesquita, installation view at Lille 3000 - ELDORADO, Gare St. Sauveur, Lille, France, curated by Dorothée Dupuis, 2019.
Caroline Mesquita, ASTRAY, exhibition view at Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2019.
Photo: Dinis Santos/ Courtesy of Galeria Municipal do Porto
Caroline Mesquita, ASTRAY, exhibition view at Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2019.
Photo: Dinis Santos/ Courtesy of Galeria Municipal do Porto
Caroline Mesquita, ASTRAY, exhibition view at Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2019.
Photo: Dinis Santos/ Courtesy of Galeria Municipal do Porto
Caroline Mesquita, Astray, 2018, installation, marble, earth, steel, plaster and wax, exhibition view at Kunsthalle Lissabon.
Photo: Bruno Lopes
Caroline Mesquita, The Machine Room, installation view at Art | Basel PARCOURS 2018, Barfüsserkirche, Basel, Switzerland
Caroline Mesquita, The Machine Room, 2018, Parcours Art Basel, Barfüsserkirche, Historisches Museum Basel
Photo: Sebastiano Pellion.
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, Voici des fleurs, 2014, group show at La Loge, Brussels, BE
Caroline Mesquita, Spaceship chain, 2017
steel, stainless steel, resin, car paint, 90 x 185 x 90 cm
Caroline Mesquita, Spaceship fish, 2017
steel, stainless steel, resin, car paint, 175 x 90 x 40 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
Caroline Mesquita, Motorbike, 2018
Inox, steel and car paint, 90 x 50 x 150 cm
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
Caroline Mesquita, 123 Soleil, 2015, steel, oxidized brass
Caroline Mesquita, 123 Soleil, 2015, steel, oxidized brass
Caroline Mesquita, 123 Soleil, 2015, steel, 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
Caroline Mesquita, Dispensaire, 2015, SpazioA project space, Pistoia, IT
Photo: Rebecca Fanuele
Caroline Mesquita, Dispensaire, 2015, SpazioA project space, Pistoia, IT
Photo: Rebecca Fanuele
Caroline Mesquita, Sloths, Pavillon du Centre d'art du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, FR
Photo: Aurélien Mole.
Caroline Mesquita, Sloths, Pavillon du Centre d'art du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, FR
Photo: Aurélien Mole.
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
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
