Mimosa Echard, Numbs (Narcisse) (2021). Aluminium frame, analogue photographic print, glass beads, plastic beads, mirrors, elastics, bracelets, synthetic hair, flower pistils, silk rope, fake flower pistils, electric cables, capsules, glass bulbs, sequin thread, pearl beads, organza, acrylic medium, acrylic lacquer, gloss. 260 x 120 x 6 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole.
Mimosa Echard, Numbs (Narcisse) (2021) (detail). Aluminium frame, analogue photographic print, glass beads, plastic beads, mirrors, elastics, bracelets, synthetic hair, flower pistils, silk rope, fake flower pistils, electric cables, capsules, glass bulbs, sequin thread, pearl beads, organza, acrylic medium, acrylic lacquer, gloss. 260 x 120 x 6 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole.
A recent discovery by Ocula Advisor Simon Fisher was this wonderfully atmospheric work by Mimosa Echard from her inaugural exhibition Numbs at Galerie Chantal Crousel.
Living and working in Paris, Echard’s work looks to reexamine the binary between nature and technology by intermixing organic and manufactured materials through collage; a technique which closely aligns her practice with the appropriated reality and assemblage works of artists of the Nouveau Réalisme movement in 1960s Paris.
Main image: Mimosa Echard, Numbs (Narcisse) (2021). Aluminium frame, analogue photographic print, glass beads, plastic beads, mirrors, elastics, bracelets, synthetic hair, flower pistils, silk rope, fake flower pistils, electric cables, capsules, glass bulbs, sequin thread, pearl beads, organza, acrylic medium, acrylic lacquer, gloss. 260 x 120 x 6 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole.
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