Mathilde Albouy

She graduated from ENSAD in Paris in 2022 and HEAR in Starsbourg in 2020. 

Playing on both formal and conceptual paradoxes, Mathilde Albouy's sculptural work invites the viewer to a game whose rules are not clearly defined. We don't know whether the encounter with her sculptures is an act of courtship or predation, confronting us with a dangerous seduction. Nourished by feminist science fiction, Mathilde uses the fictions generated by her pieces as political tools to question an established, binary reality. By hijacking scales and materials, the sometimes sharp or toxic objects become individuals in their own right, revealing how the beauty of objects, particularly feminine ones, conveys patterns of oppression.

Her recent exhibitions include: ‘'Arcanes, rituels et chimères’’, Frac Corsica, Corte (2024); ‘‘Augmented Paris’’, Zhi Art Museum X Poush, Chengdu (2024); ‘‘Straight no Chaser’’, Zuzeum Art Center, Riga, Lettonie (2024); ‘‘Antipetra’’, curated by La Méditerranée, Madrid (2024); ‘’Revenir du présent, regards croisés sur la scène actuelle’’, La Collection Lambert invite POUSH, Avignon (2024); Bourse Révélations Emerige, Paris, (2023); ‘‘Trust Me’’ (solo), Galerie Derouillon, Paris (2023); ‘‘Haniwa Boogie-Woogie’’, FORMA, Paris (2023); ‘‘House of dreamers’’, Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Bruxelles (2023); ‘‘May this thurn out amazing’’ (solo), ENSAD, Paris (2022); ‘‘à partir de là’’, Centre d’Art Chanot, Clamart (2022); ‘‘Vous avez laissé le FLAT sur le feu’’, galerie a mano studio, Biarritz (2022).

Public collections: Collection Emerige, Malakoff (FR); Fond d’art contemporain - Paris collections, Paris (FR); Spazio Almag, Brescia (IT); Zhi Art Museum, Chengdu (CN); Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga (LVA)