Marina Collard 

MIDLIFE occupies ESTHIA placing video works, paintings, and performance together with domestic objects (like the fuchsia slippers) in dialogue with elements already belonging to the space. The event treads a line between aspects of the everyday in contrast with the formalities of a public exhibition. 

 

Fragments of conversations pinned to the wall, mix up the banal with urgent preoccupations. The collage of images which make up the jigsaw, go from football to ...

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The collision of aesthetics is unapologetic and the preoccupation with movement and physicality reflects the fragile and complex landscape of our natural and human-made world. The kitsch, which plays on the resistance to good taste, finds its place, a light touch disruption to the hierarchy of value. 

 

MIDLIFE takes a warm and humorous approach to the juxtaposition of elements, aestheticised and paradoxically explored, reframing the ordinariness of everyday life, rendering the unspectacular visible.