Telling the Bees - Paul Mosig and Rachel Peachey - Opening event

For the Autumn 2026 Commission, MAP mima presents a newly created work by collaborative artists Paul Mosig and Rachel Peachey.

Known for their cinematic and immersive practice, Paul Mosig and Rachel Peachey craft experiences that blur the boundaries between film, installation, and expanded moving image.

Their commission for MAP mima transforms the 360-degree Cube into a shifting environment of sound and vision, enveloping audiences in layered imagery and atmospheric soundscapes. Drawing on their interest in the everyday, the natural world, and the intersections of human experience with technology, the work invites viewers into a world that feels both intimate and expansive.

The exhibition Telling the Bees takes its title from a historical European custom in which beekeepers informed their hives of a death in the family, placing the bees into mourning alongside the living. Though the origins of the practice remain uncertain, it has long been associated with beliefs in bees as intermediaries between worlds, carrying messages between the living and the dead.

For Peachey & Mosig, this ritual sits as a point of resonance, a reminder of older ways of acknowledging loss, care, and interdependence beyond the human.