Caroline Mesquita (born 1989 in Brest, lives and works in Marseille) is a
sculptor and
video
artist, mainly working with metal. She creates sculptures like
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 is the winner of the 2017 Prize of the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard.
