Pink Everywhere, a solo show with Caroline Mesquita.
Press release:
For her first solo show in a German institution, French artist Caroline Mesquita (b.1989) transformed the Kunstverein Langenhagen into an immersive environment. In previous works, she has used folded metal tubes that prevent viewers from entering it whereas this time the installation invites visitors to navigate the exhibition space along with a metal construction of tubes and plates where brass human-size sculptures are displayed and meet in front a video projection. In this video work titled “pink everywhere” –as the exhibition’s title-, the artist interacts with sculptures similar to the ones in the exhibition space, male and female, sometimes painted, sometimes oxidized, in a succession of scenes oscillating between tenderness, role play, sexual envy, astonishment, and violence.
If her earlier video works recalled the allegory of Pygmalion falling in love with his sculpture Galatea, it seems that this time in a reversal of roles, many Galateas are playing with the multiple identities an artist can have.
An article to read about the show on Tique
The show took place from September 4th to November 2016 at the Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany.
image credits: thomas ganzenmüller hannover, courtesy of kunstverein langenhagen and the artist.