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Like the oxymoron of the title — by definition, a splash cannot be quiet — Mesquita's work often seeks to bring together concepts and materials that at first glance appear antagonistic. Rather, the discretion expressed through the everyday themes she gravitates toward may relegate the spectacular dimension of her work to the background — a spectacle nonetheless born from illusion. The virtuosity of Mesquita's installations thus often reveals itself only after a period of observation, once the first sweep of the gaze — sometimes capable of obscuring the level of complexity embedded within the work — has passed.
For instance, the bathing scene presented at PEAANA appears, at first glance, to be of great figurative simplicity. The starting point of the sculptural project is a large square base of oxidized brass: we quickly enter into the fiction that this surface is water. Two metal legs, firmly planted on its blue surface, suggest the existence of a liquid space beneath the hard flatness…
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Like the oxymoron of the title — by definition, a splash cannot be quiet — Mesquita's work often seeks to bring together concepts and materials that at first glance appear antagonistic. Rather, the discretion expressed through the everyday themes she gravitates toward may relegate the spectacular dimension of her work to the background — a spectacle nonetheless born from illusion. The virtuosity of Mesquita's installations thus often reveals itself only after a period of observation, once the first sweep of the gaze — sometimes capable of obscuring the level of complexity embedded within the work — has passed.
For instance, the bathing scene presented at PEAANA appears, at first glance, to be of great figurative simplicity. The starting point of the sculptural project is a large square base of oxidized brass: we quickly enter into the fiction that this surface is water. Two metal legs, firmly planted on its blue surface, suggest the existence of a liquid space beneath the hard flatness…
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