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Exhibition

Je, Me - hors les murs

Solo show by Madison Bycroft

August 26 – September 10, 2017, public opening on August 26, 5PM 17h
Adélaïde, 17 rue du Chevalier Rôze, 13002 Marseille

“Je me”, a composition of words that puts two selves alongside each other and/or one after the other. How does the reflexive verb move? It goes out and in. Are both actions simultaneous? Or are they sequential? They move away, loop around and mingle in an-other space, before returning.

The body receives itself that is no longer itself.

For their first solo exhibition in France, Adelaïde presents a new body of work by the artist, including drawings, sculpture and video. Collectively, the work attempts to think a space between multiplicity and effacement. What happens to a body that is affected and affecting, that is restless beyond it’s edges? In what ways can a body enact a capacity for incapacity? And what dangers are encountered therein? The artist is interested in radical forms of empathy, accommodation, and hospitality to difference, and the subsequent unfolding of a subject that allows or invites itself to be altered.

Madison Bycroft’s practice currently explores empathic, animist, and linguistic methodologies of translation, where translation might be read as an approach, an attunement, an invocation or a being with.

Of particular interest, is the fine line between closed (reductive) and open (enabling) speech. What practical possibilities can the mystical language of unsaying and the paradox offer? How can the middle voice - a verb form both active and passive - be re-instated in speech and action, in a way that queers the subject, makes it plural, and renegotiates lines of relation?

Madison Bycroft performs different selves, challenging the idea of a unique subject authoring their own actions, and instead situates themself as a responsive multiplicity.

Madison Bycroft is a recent graduate of the Piet Zwart Institute of Fine Art, in Rotterdam, which they attended with the support of the Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship. Since 2016, along with Natalia Sorzano and Kari Robertson they run GHOST, a platform for new collaboration and facilitation.
Madison Bycroft’s Australian exhibitions include: “CatDog” - Greenaway Gallery, “Primavera: Young Australian Artists” at the MCA in Sydney, “Synonyms for Savages”, The Australian Experimental Art Foundation and It Division - Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia. International exhibitions include “Creatures of the Mud” - Westfälischer Kunstverein in Muenster, “Translating Medea”, Yellow Brick, Athens, “The Blue Grey Wall” - Physics room, Christchurch, and a showing at Microscope Gallery as part of residency at the ISCP in Brooklyn, New York.