Mimosa Echard's 'Dolls' Theater' at Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne

Mimosa Echard (*1986) presents 'Dolls' Theater' at Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne (KBCB) until September 6, 2026. The exhibition transforms the Salle Poma into a conceptual cave, invoking mythologies from prehistoric motifs to Times Square, Diana, and the Spice Girls. Central to the show is the video 'Tide' (2026), depicting extreme close-ups of advertising screens in Times Square, where the artist focuses on the abstract texture of attention—rhythm, flow, cut—rather than recognizable commodities. The series 'Withdrawals' (2026) features tableaux made from fabrics that block electromagnetic waves, showing oxidization traces and negative handprints that evoke prehistoric cave walls, oscillating between fragment and totality. The sculptures include 'Diane' (2026), a server rack reconstructing a cave the artist decorated at age twelve, using shotgun cartridges, pocket mirrors, Spice Girls imagery, and limestone pebbles. 'Bébé Marie (after Joseph Cornell)' (2024) reinterprets a Cornell composition from MoMA, transforming a Victorian doll into a pop astronaut in a microwave. 'Matrix' (2026) is an enlarged straw from a New York sex shop, presenting a vulva as an ambiguous presence blurring body, object, and image. The title 'Dolls' Theater' references a stalactite formation in New Mexico, designating a conceptual and real space. The exhibition also references Samuel R. Delany's 'Times Square Red Times Square Blue' (1999).