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Zoe Barcza Mother's Milk (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + In extenso, Clermont-Ferrand. Photo: Vincent Blesbois

Impotent insomniacs + the perpetual state of inertia in the self-generating support of Zoe Barcza’s Mother’s Milk at In extenso

, 11 December 2017

Zoe Barcza‘s Mother’s Milk solo exhibition is on at Clermont-Ferrand’s In extenso, which opened October 12 and is running to December 16.

Zoe Barcza, Mother’s Milk (2017) Installation view. Photo by Vincent Blesbois. Courtesy the artist + In extenso, Clermont-Ferrand.

The installation includes a series of paintings and a sculptural box housing a mechanical puppet dressed as a chef, moving back and forth and locked in a perpetual state of inertia. The exhibition title alludes to a food source that provides the basis of life; a self-generating form of support vital for growth. 

The press release is a text by Erik Lavesson that narrates a story between two characters called Theo and Vincent, as well as a dog named Elle. The plot moves in a frustrated, circular motion, finding no resolution as it meanders through climate change, dark individualism and the increase feels of “impotent insomniacs.”**

Zoe Barcza’s Mother’s Milk solo exhibition is on at Clermont-Ferrand’s In extenso, running October 12 to December 16, 2017.