Carole Mousset
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Carole Mousset is a French painter based in Brussels. She studied at the Beaux-Arts in Nantes and at the Royal Academy in Brussels, and works as an artist-in-residence at Triphasé. She paints and sometimes makes ceramics. She compares her work to turning over a branch in the forest and finding something teeming with life underneath, both marvelous and terrifying.
Her subject is the body, opened up, altered, looked at from the inside. She calls her way of seeing the body gaze, a kind of pictorial dissection where the origin of the subject, human or not, does not matter much. Her paintings are dreamlike landscapes made of proliferating matter, soft in places, toxic in others. She won the Novembre à Vitry Painting Prize in 2022.
Her recent work is built around a fantastical aquatic creature inspired by real species like the Hagfish and the properties of its slime. The figure is a way into feminist questions about the female body, bodily flows, and what lies hidden inside us. Her solo show The Hagshow at Galerie Scroll in Nantes came from this research. She has also shown at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve in Paris and has done residencies in Poitiers and in the Hardangerfjord in Norway.
