PARIS INTERNATIONALE: MADISON BYCROFT, LOU MASDURAUD

For Paris Internationale, the selection highlights sculptures, ceramics, and work on paper that explore systems of power shaped by language, collective habits, and social norms. Bycroft and Masduraud’s works question dominant structures and suggest new ways of reading, interpreting, and relating to cultural and social frameworks.

Madison Bycroft (1987, Tarntanya, AUS) lives and works in Paris. Working with video, sculpture, and performance, Madison Bycroft’s current interests extend into forms of reading and writing, expression, and refusal. The politics of illegibility and legibility are explored through language and material, asking how ‘sense’ is framed by historical contexts, biases, and structures of power. Bycroft is interested in how we might re-imagine “reading” (in its expanded sense) and understanding, not as goal-oriented towards accomplishment, but as a relationship that hovers and makes space — opaque, errant, fractured, and floating. Madison Bycroft received the Ricard Prize in 2024 and was nominated for the Emerige Prize in 2021 and the Future Generation Art Prize in 2019. Recent solo exhibitions include: 2025; Triangle-Astérides, Marseille, FR; ADA, Rome, IT; 2024; Liste, Basel, CH; 2023; sissi club, Marseille, FR; 2021; Samstag Museum of Art, Kaurna Yerta, AUS; Centrale Fies, Trento, IT; 2019; 1646, Den Haag, NL; 2017; Adelaïde, Marseille, FR. Recent group and collectives exhibitions in Villa Medicis Rome, Seoul Museum of Art, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Kunsthaus Hamburg, MAXXI L’Aquila, LUMA Arles, La Becque, Steirischerherbst, Art and History Museum Geneva, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Pernod Ricard, CAC Bretigny, FRAC Corsica, Biennale de Rennes. Bycroft’s artworks are held in various private and public collections including CNAP, FRAC Bretagne.