Internationally renowned, Paris-based artist Angelica Mesiti creates video installations that are absorbing and profound experiences for audiences. Her work ASSEMBLY, shown in the Australian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, was later acquired by the National Gallery of Australia. Angelica’s work explores collective actions, non-linguistic and non-human forms of communication, perceptions of time and space, and questions the anthropocentric model of the world. Her video work Future Perfect Continuous, exhibited at Anna Schwartz Gallery in Naarm/Melbourne in 2022, pairs a montage of young people using their hands to evoke the sound of rain with images of fossilised rain prints preserved in stone millions of years ago. Angelica has presented solo exhibitions worldwide, including at the Palais de Tokyo Paris, MAXXI Rome and Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal.
Monica with Brugmansia, Angelica’s video portrait of Monica Gagliano, honours the research and approach of the Australian-based evolutionary biologist and author of Thus spoke the plant (2018).
