Zalucky Contemporary

For our inaugural presentation at the fair, Zalucky Contemporary is pleased to feature a solo booth presentation by French-Canadian artist Caroline Mauxion. Mauxion’s practice is deeply rooted in the sensory experience of her body. Born with a physical malformation and subjected to long medical treatments, Mauxion has developed a multifaceted photo-based practice informed by these life experiences to create a site of friction between care and desire. Through photographic layering and the manipulation of plaster and latex, Mauxion transforms photographs of herself and her partner into a selection of obscured and unreadable studies. When external gazes, particularly medical ones, tend to fragment and objectify non-normative bodies, the act of asserting queer desire then becomes both an intimate and political gesture, as well as means for the artist to reclaim her body. Mauxion’s practice is informed by Crip studies (short for ‘crippled’), a form of theory at the intersection of queer and disability studies.