Mimosa Echard Wins Marcel Duchamp Prize for Feminist Ecological Art

Mimosa Echard has been awarded France's most prestigious art honor, the Marcel Duchamp Prize, receiving €35,000. Her practice investigates permaculture and feminist ecology through relationships between organic and synthetic materials. The artist's 2021 work I Still Dream of Orgonon features plastic bottles filled with batteries, beads, and other matter. Earlier pieces include A/B (2016), where plexiglass boxes contain botanical and pharmaceutical mixtures creating abstract compositions. Echard recently presented a computer game at Palais de Tokyo that simulates exploration through a transforming organism inspired by slime mould life cycles. She was selected over fellow shortlisted artists Giulia Andreani, Iván Argote, and Philippe Decrauzat. Born in Alès, a southern French region with communal living traditions that influence her work, Echard graduated from Paris's École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in 2010. Her exhibition history includes Sporal at Palais de Tokyo, Numbs at Galerie Chantal Crousel in 2021, LUCA at Dortmunder Kunstverein in 2019, Pulsion Potion at Cell Project Space Gallery in 2017, and iDeath at Galerie Samy Abraham in 2016.