Youth Literature Workshop 

Together with you, we would like to write about Caroline Mesquita’s exhibition!

The French artist Caroline Mesquita is regarded as a key interpreter of contemporary sculpture and its performative qualities. She creates sculptural bodies reminiscent of humans, animals and various hybrid creatures. These bodies are formed from brass and metals, and, despite the durability of the materials used, are characterized by a lightness and playful potential that animates them – almost as if they were living puppets. For Verdet Bath, Mesquita creates a bathing spa consisting of a swimming pool, changing rooms and drinking fountains, in which a multitude of her creatures and their audience cavort.

The title refers to the older alchemical term Verdet, which is another name for vert-de-gris (green patina), a key focus of the exhibition. Mesquita reimagines this color, typically associated with the aging of sculptures in public space as the color of water in a bathing landscape where human figures and animals come together to explore a universal sense of togetherness. The recourse to alchemy describes both the chemical process of coloring as well as a reference to the magical or fairytale-like characters of the figures, while the sculptures carry a utopian potential, and it remains ambiguous whether the scene depicts a dream or reality.

The writing workshop is a cooperation with the Jugendliteraturwerkstatt Graz. The workshop is aimed at young people aged between 14 and 19.

Workshop-Program:

18.1., 10 am Part 1: Exhibition tour with Caro Feistritzer
23.1., 10 am Part 2: Instructions on text production with Lydia Gebker and Martin Ohrt
 8.2., 11 am Part 3: Presentation and reading by the workshop participants

Please register by 16 January 2025: cf@​halle-​fuer-​kunst.​at