The Lies of the Weatherman
A solo exhibition by Madison Bycroft
Curator: Victorine Grataloup
June 27 - November 16, 2025; public opening on Thursday, June 26, from 5 to 10 pm
Panorama, Friche la Belle de Mai
An exhibition conceived and produced by Triangle-Astérides, co-produced by the cooperative La Friche la Belle de Mai.
With the support of Villa Medici and the Fondation des Artistes.
Partners: Actoral, steirischer herbst ‘25
Madison Bycroft’s solo exhibition is centered around their film installation Exauguration. The sauce of all order. The exhibition invites the audience into an earthy environment that extends the ending of the film and its image of the molehill: it is precisely within a molehill that the film is projected.
At once a comedy, a musical, and a gore film, The sauce of all order follows the inauguration of Felix Culpa as they joins the circle of augurs—priests in ancient Rome who interpreted natural phenomena, particularly bird-related signs, as omens on behalf of emperors. Here, the emperor/empress Oren—an anagram of Nero, the 1st-century Roman emperor—revives the character of Trimalchio, who parodied Nero in the Satyricon, attributed to Petronius, a Roman writer and arbiter elegantiae [arbiter of good taste] at Nero’s court. The Satyricon is a tale of excess, whose central scene, the “Banquet of Trimalchio,” is a mock funerary feast and a story of social ascension where truth and falsehood are indistinguishable—an episode Madison Bycroft’s film directly references.