The Fondation Pernod Ricard published two new essay commissions on its editorial platform.
TextWork #36: News from Home (Some Epistolary Exposures and Passages of Ambient Paranoia for Mimosa)
Mimosa Echard according to Quinn Latimer
“We look at her recent paintings and photographs and I clock the colors: pink, purple, green, brown, silver, bronze. Colors synthetic, feminine, and advertorial, or of mineral and metal. Hues of resources, natural and not. But what is nature? It’s a question that Echard’s work seems to ask again and again, positing a world ecology as synthetic as it is biological, the transformative processes mimicking each other, as synthetic hormones often do.”
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TextWork #37: Double Trouble
Brice Dellsperger according to Evan Moffitt
“As soon as Dellsperger’s vast archive of “Body Doubles” starts to cohere into a vision of the world, the reel sputters. Gender glitches. Identity malfunctions, its image repeated until rendered almost meaningless. We watch in bemused horror as the semiotics of cinema self-implode. Dellsperger reperforms scenes until they start to fall apart. Endless copies only prove that their sources are simulacra.”
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Upcoming TextWork publications
Anne Le Troter according to Sofia Lemos
Thu-Van Tran according to Michelle Antoinette
TextWork fosters and supports the work of artists active in the French art scene through the publication of long-form critical essays produced by international writers. With this program, the Pernod Ricard Foundation reinforces its commitment of over 25 years to supporting and disseminating this art scene. TextWork is conceived with the support of the French Ministry of Culture.
For more information: textwork@fondation-pernod-ricard.com.
