For the Liste art fair in Basel (Switzerland), the SISSI club gallery presents a solo exhibition by Madison Bycroft, entitled Interior Rhapsody. Working across multiple media, Bycroft takes as her starting point research that blends different forms of language and writing, as well as multiple historical and philosophical sources, to create immersive installations. These installations explore notions of fluidity, disturbance, and “opacity,” to borrow the apt term of Édouard Glissant. Her theoretical and visual work continually seeks elusiveness by questioning the notions of “buoyancy” and “anti-portrait.”

This exhibition presents a collection of works within a scenography evoking the composition of a membrane, an organ. The term “rhapsody,” literally meaning “a stitching of songs,” leads Bycroft to connect this sound composition—burlesque and parodic—to the act of suturing.

To illustrate these reflections, and not without a touch of irony, Madison Bycroft intertwines her current research on the figure of the Augur with prosaic characters like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Frankenstein’s creature, with the iconography of Renaissance anatomical theaters, and with Susan Stryker’s text, *My Words to Victor Frankenstein*.

Through this exhibition, Madison Bycroft thus questions our anatomical (re)compositions, our organic and semantic constructions of identity, and our perspectives on otherness.