Contemporary Art Exhibitions: Cathy De Monchaux

STUDIO, WOUNDS AND BATTLES, DESIRE IS THE REITERATION OF HOPE

Cathy de Monchaux was born in Protected content London, where she lives and works.

A major figure of the British art scene, Cathay de Monchaux graduated from Goldsmiths College, the birthplace of the Young British Artists movement.

STUDIO, WOUNDS AND BATTLES, DESIRE IS THE REITERATION OF HOPE
This is the first retrospective dedicated to Cathy de Monchaux, a major figure of the British art scene, including more than fifty works dating from Protected content today.

The exhibition pulls us between epidermal desires and dangers, bringing together technical drawings, archives of destroyed works, sculptures and installations—vertical or horizontal, on the wall or on the floor. The artist unsettles our points of reference, particularly those of the phallocratic order of philosophical and artistic language: a ‘privilege accorded to rectitude […] to the symbolism of the phallus and, at the same time, the reduction of woman to matter-

Her more recent work emerges in bas-relief like a backlit imaginary world, suspended between the urgency of dazzlement and the invasion of panic within a fractal universe: vines are roots that are bodies that are souls that are struggles that might also be imprints to be healed. Composed like battle paintings, these works also engage with depth and new perspectives, articulated through negative space.

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