Description
This summer, MO.CO. offers its spaces to the great American artist Kiki Smith. After having welcomed other major female figures in contemporary art such as Berlinde De Bruyckere, Huma Bhabha and Françoise Pétrovitch, we will be celebrating a creation with diverse practices, centered around the question of being in the world - social, spiritual, animal and celestial bodies.
Kiki Smith, an American artist born in Germany in 1954, has been developing a multidisciplinary practice since the 1980s, combining sculptures, engravings, photographs, drawings, books, tapestries and various objects. One of the hallmarks of her work is experimentation with diversity and the rejection of any form of hierarchy. A central subject remains the human body, often female, its anatomy, its imprint, its relationship to the living. At times disquieting, altered or fragmented, it also appears soothed, unifying and a meeting point of energies.
The exhibition, conceived in close collaboration with the artist, will bring together over a hundred works in a wide variety of media and techniques, spanning more than forty years of production. Across the entire 1500 m2 of space on three floors, the exhibition will explore the relationship between different aspects of the artist?s work, through a narrative centered on the body. At once a complex set of organs, held together under the skin, it is also the sign of our social identity, clothed and accessorized. It is also the seat of our animality, our connection with nature and a diffuse spirituality.
A richly illustrated bilingual catalog will also be published in French and English. The graphic design was entrusted to Atelier Tout va bien. It will be accompanied by short multidisciplinary texts commissioned for the occasion.
From June 13 to October 11, 2026
Opening Saturday June 13, 2026 at 12pm at MO.CO.
