CAROLE MOUSSET
CAROLE MOUSSET
Carole Mousset is a multimedia artist questioning the body and our relationship to intimacy. She explores the human interiority with a dreamlike and sometimes erotic approach.
Her work carries a vision of the body as a fluid container in constant mutation. By presenting a subjective approach of the inner body exploration, she proposes visions of reality distorted by our own fantasies. Inspired by what David Cronenberg calls « the creative cancer » (to adopt the disease’s point of view while filming the body), she aims to represent the world through an organic prism. These kinds of new forms of dissections are part of what she calls the body gaze.
The using of body fluids in her work is as a symbolic than a formal approach. The symbolic part refers to the poetic aspect that body fluids have regarding to the humors theory (the fact that the body is filled with four different fluids linked to the four natural elements). It is also a way to speak about body emancipation. The formal part refers to technical issues : how to paint the inherent movement of fluids ? How to represent viscous liquids and living matter ?
She works and lives in Brussels.
Solo/duo shows
2023
Novembre à Vitry, exposition des lauréates 2022 with Soraya Rhofir / Galerie municipale Jean Collet / Vitry sur Seine / Fr.
Corruptible Bodies / Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve - Project Room / Paris / Fr.
2021
Quarantined Saliva (Les sentiments océaniques) / Art Au Centre #6 / Liege / Be.
2019
Mine are sort of medium pink -- not real light pink / collaboration with Tristan Gac cur. Leaving Living Dakota / Décoratelier / Brussels / Be.
Group shows
2024
Ni Chair ni poisson / Fondation Carrefour des Arts / Brussels / Be.
2023
Shadeless / Metaxu / Toulon / Fr.
ADAF - A Domestic Art Fair / Studio City Gate / Brussels / Be.
Lippia / Galerie Recif / Brussels / Be.
Mattergy / Chapelle de Boondael / Brussels / Be.
CRU / with Lucile Boiron & Ellande Jaureguiberry, cur. Josephine Dupuy-Chavanat / Chapelle XIV / Paris / Fr. (soon)
Down by the sea engines / Galerie Recif / Les Iles Mardi / Brussels / Be.
Prix Jean & Irène Rancy / Maison Losseau / Mons / Be.
2022
Novembre à Vitry, Prix de peinture 2022 / Galerie Municipale Jean Collet / Vitry Sur Seine / Fr.
Cultural Workers Show : Exode / cur. Yann Chevallier / Confort Moderne / Poitiers / Fr.
Misceo / cur. Les Iles Mardi / Fondations 312 / Brussels / Be.
Lucky Charms / Ballroom Gallery / Brussels / Be.
Grande Bouffe / Sterput / Brussels / Be.
Milan Design Week / cur. French Cliché / La Alcolva / Milan / It.
ADAF, A Domestic Art Fair / cur. Miguel Gonçalves-Alver / LaVallée / Brussels / Be.
Sugar for the pill / cur. Zeynep Kubat / DE Studio / Antwerp Art Weekend / Antwerp / Be.
Cendar Brussels / cur. Galerie Zotto / KBK / Brussels / Be.
And then, when I sleep, without language of night, I do not realize / cur. Pelin Gökçek / See U / Brussels / Be.
2021
The Mole People / cur. Jonathan Bréchignac & Clément Mancini / Les Petites Maisons / Paris / Fr.
Liquid Gaze / cur. Nadia Arab / former Manpower building / Brussels / Be.
2020
Paradis Amer / cur. Charlène Guyon Mathé / Ateliers de la Ville en Bois / Nantes / Fr.
Pi / rue Rodenbach / Brussels / Be.
Chien / Le Lac / Brussels / Be.
Dreaming Only of Spring / cur. Johannes Arnauts / LOTO / Brussels / Be.
2019
GLOOOM / cur. Tristan Gac & Victoria Palacios / avenue de Stalingrad / Brussels / Be.
To Smooth That Furrowed Bow / cur. Cléo Totti / B32 / Maastricht / Nl.
Biennale van België: United in Rave / Pavillion Diesel / Floraliënhal / Ghent / Be.
CARNAE / cur. Nadia Arab / Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek / Brussels / Be.
Speakeasy closing party / Lycée Molière / Brussels / Be.
Uglification / cur. Socle Collectif / Metaculture / Kiev / Ukr.
Cultural Workers Show (CWSS002) / rue de Bosnie / Brussels / Be.
2018
18cm 13cm / Cdlt+ Gallery / Liege / Be.
C’était mieux demain / LaVallée / Brussels / Be.
Moliere project - The 5th Edition / Lycée Molière / Brussels / Be.
La Lampada / cur. Leaving Living Dakota / Brasseries Atlas / Brussels / Be.
2017
Everything is under control / Atelier EXBek / Brussels / Be.
4th Masters Salon Painting 2017 / Royal Academy of Fine Arts / Antwerp / Be.
Mythologie.s / LaVallée / Brussels / Be.
First Layer / Atelier 34zero Muzeum / Brussels / Be.
Moliere Project - First edition / Lycée Molière / Brussels / Be.
2016
VIème Science / boulevard Stalingrad / Brussels / Be.
Residencies/prices
2024
Selected for Prisma Art Prize / Roma / It.
Selected for Prix Icart Artistik Rezo / Paris / Fr.
2023
Selected for Prix de peinture Jean & Irène Rancy 2023 / Be.
2022
Winner of Novembre à Vitry, Prix de peinture 2022 / Fr.
One week residency for Cultural Workers Show: Exode / Confort Moderne / Poitiers / Fr.
Education
2017
MA painting / Arba-Esa / Brussels / Be.
2015
DNA / ESBA Nantes Métropole / Fr.