Telling the Bees – Paul Mosig and Rachel Peachey

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

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.