Caroline Mesquita creates human-sized environments where visitors encounter sculptures resembling humans, humanoids, animals, machines, and other objects.
With great artistic freedom, Mesquita uses different metals, which she cuts, twists, rolls, and welds together. The various metals (brass, copper, stainless steel, or steel) are then collected and their raw surfaces blackened, burnished, oxidized, brushed, or chiselled. Unlike classical ways of showing sculptures, her cheerful and mischievous environments endow them with a great potential for fiction and imagination.
Geometric and anthropomorphic shapes, animal and mechanical figures, ritual objects, and archaeological finds, disaster scenes and dance parties – all of them populate these fixed tableaux, which then take on new life in stop-motion videos where Mesquita engages with the jerkily animated sculptures, taking on multiple identities. By occupying the HAB Galerie, Mesquita continues to explore the possibilities of a sculpture’s life in a metallic landscape made up of numerous metallic and hybrid surprises.
HAB Galerie, Quai des Antilles, Nantes
How to get there?
Public transport: Hangar à Bananes, Carrière Misery, Quai des Antilles, Salorges
Self-service bicycles: Hangar À Bananes (n°105), Antilles (n°104), Garennes (n°106), Carrière Misery (n°28)
T. 02 28 08 77 28
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Open today from 13h30 to 19h00.
From september 11th 2024 to september 29th 2024
from 13h30 to 19h00 on wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday
Free access
A mediation team is on hand to welcome all visitors, whether disabled or not.
PRM parking is available on the boulevard de la Prairie-au-duc.
Cane seats and Flaneuses® (wheeled mobility modules) are available on a self-service basis.
