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Angelica Mesiti
미래완료진행형 Future Perfect Continuous | 2022 | 8’
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Future Perfect Continuous is a black-and-white video in which eleven performers collectively enact the sound of rain—moving from a gentle drizzle to a full storm and back again—using hand gestures and body percussion. Inspired by a children’s game the artist witnessed in a schoolyard (often used in drama workshops), the performers generate rainfall through rubbing and clapping hands, sliding palms, slapping thighs, and snapping fingers. The choreography builds an immersive soundscape and a hypnotic visual composition, gradually transforming the group into “weather” itself. As the intensity rises and recedes, the work stages a shared experience that bridges individual and collective action, suggesting how something impossible alone becomes achievable together. The title references the English verb tense for actions that will have been ongoing up to a future moment, inviting reflection on present global turbulence and on how we might imagine futures through a collective lens.
About the artist
Angelica Mesiti is an Australian artist who lives and works in Paris. Working across multi-channel sound, performance, and video installation, she has gained international recognition through major exhibitions and commissions. In 2019 she represented Australia at the 58th Venice Biennale with the three-channel installation ASSEMBLY, which explored plurality and forms of non-linguistic communication central to her practice. In 2024 she presented The Rites of When, a major commission for the TANK at the Art Gallery of New South Wales currently showing at the museum Tinguely in Basel. Mesiti’s work has been shown widely in solo exhibitions and biennales internationally.