MARUANI MERCIER is delighted to present Bea Scaccia: Mood Swings, the exhibition of new paintings by the artist. In Mood Swings, meticulously rendered objects of adornment interweave, ripple and twist, enshrouding the female figure in the composition. Illuminated by the soft glow of twinkle lights, layers of shoes, jewels and beads appear both desirable and strange, humorous and uncanny, as if animated by a mysterious force in a fairy-tale realm. Sweeping across each painting, Scaccia’s complex arrangements interrogate the notion of beauty and the tropes of female representation, at once questioning the human longing for objects as signifiers of identity and social roles.
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