Mimosa Echard

Other residents

To coincide with the Cities theme week of the Dubai World Expo, Art Explora is exhibiting works by eight internationally renowned French artists. Questioning the place of ecosystems in the urban environment, these works are presented simultaneously in several urban spaces, in Dubai as well as in Paris, in order to share the World Expo's artistic program with as many people as possible.

Mimosa Echard

Nightcore 1, 2021 

Presented in the Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre metro station, in front of the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo and on Jumeirah Road in Dubai. 

Mimosa Echard

Nightcore 2, 2021 

Work presented in front of the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo.

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Mimosa Echard is interested in creating hybrid eco-systems where the living and the non-living, the human and the non-human, cohabit. Her works explore zones of contact and contamination between organic and consumer objects, elements that our cultural conventions may perceive as ambivalent, even contradictory.

The Nightcore (2021) series presents two photographs taken by Mimosa Echard of her own studio compost, whose composition, decomposition and mutation she observes. Inspired by the research of microbiologist Lynn Margulis, the artist probes this space of symbiotic relationships, where bacteria and fungal layers merge to form new organisms. With Nightcore, the advertising space is contaminated by a shifting aesthetic, made up of altering elements. In an urban environment, the artist offers an opening to fertile contagion.
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The artist's biography

Mimosa Echard was born in Alès (France) in 1986, and lives and works in Paris. The artist is interested in the creation of hybrid eco-systems where the living and the non-living, the human and the non-human cohabit. Her works explore areas of contact and contamination between organic and consumer objects, elements that our cultural conventions may perceive as ambivalent, even contradictory. At the heart of the artist's compositions and installations, medicinal plants collected in her garden or from inhabitants of her native village enter into symbiosis with cosmetics or electronic components. Her work has been exhibited at international institutions such as the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, (2020), the Fondation Lambert, Avignon (2020), the Centre d'Art Contemporain d'Ivry - Le CRÉDAC (2020), the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019, 2017), among others. Mimosa Echard is represented by Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris).

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Discover the works of the seven other artists featured in the "Autres habitants" exhibition:

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This project is supported by the French Institute of the United Arab Emirates, JCDecaux, the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo and RATP.

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