Interview on art Meeting with Mimosa Echard
The Interview on art series gives the opportunity to hear what an artist has to say about his or her work in long-term conversations, hosted by Jill Gasparina.
One way to immerse oneself in Mimosa Echard’s work is to go through the lists of elements that make up her pieces. These lists, more or less extensive, constitute a sort of found poem where sets of synthetic and natural things are associated in proportions that vary from one piece to another. Another way would be to zoom in and out, to get as close as possible to the materials and the swirling micro-assemblies they compose, then to move away to recapture the works in their totality, in all their formal and decorative power, in their quiet pictoriality. We could also review the extent of his practices, from the most physical and massive to the most immaterial: sculpture, bas-relief, painting, collage, publishing and fanzines, video. Or to examine in detail, very methodically, the contradictions around which his pieces are structured: the living and the non-living, matter and information, the discarded and the precious, the soft colors and expressionism, the visible and the hidden, disgust and ecstasy (the inventory could of course go on and on). Or, why not, go back over his biography, from a childhood spent in the north of the Cevennes, in a proximity with the plant world which forged his botanical culture, to his departure for Paris.
This interview proposes to take as its starting point the artist’s final installation in her studio in Nogent-sur-Marne in 2019. Mimosa Echard now has a garden there, where she grows some of the plants she uses in her work, a fact which, by her own admission, contributes to the evolution of her practice towards an articulation between two terrains, the interior and the exterior.
Mimosa Echard was born in 1986 in Alès.
She lives and works in Paris and Nogent s/Marne.
