Duoshow:
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.
The Lies of the Weatherman, Triangle-Astérides, Marseille, 2025.
Lou Masduraud (1990, Montpellier, FR) lives and works in Geneva.
In her practice of sculptures and installations, Lou Masduraud proposes forms of reversals and alternatives to dominant realities. Approaching the network of human activities as a complex system of managed infrastructures, Lou Masduraud develops a body of work that functions as formal and conceptual investigation of specific elements such as fountains, basement windows and street lamp post which belong to daily experience of the public and the private space to expose the relations of power and desire that underlie them. Masduraud not only blurs the boundaries between the function and the ornament, craft technique and conceptual practice, the outside and the inside, but eviscerates the skeleton of the structures we inhabit with an interpretive and voyeuristic take, questioning normative regulatory systems and enabling counter-narratives for public life.
Lou Masduraud was awarded in 2023 the Geneva Manor Art Prize and in 2024 the Federal Price; Swiss Art Award in Basel.
Recent solo exhibitions include: 2025; Le Grand Café, CAC, Saint Nazaire, FR; 2024; Kunsthaus Langenthal, CH; Institut français d’Allemagne, Berlin, DE, ADA, Rome, IT ; Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel, CH. 2023 ; MAMCO, Prix Manor, Geneva, CH. 2022 ; CAN, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, CH; May Day, Basel, CH. 2021 ; La Maison Pop, Montreuil, FR. Recent group and collectives exhibitions in European institutions include Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Genève, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Villa Medicis Rome, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève, CAPC Bordeaux, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard Paris, Kunsthaus Hamburg, MCBA Lausanne, MO.CO Montpellier, CRAC Alsace, Kunsthalle Basel, Biennale de Lyon, Moscou Biennal. Masduraud’s artworks are held in various private and public collections including MAMCO, CNAP, FRAC Champagne Ardenne, FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine, FRAC Occitanie, MAMVP, FMAC, FCAC Genève.
Ta Crème Immunitaire, Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, 2025.
Installation view ‘Ta crème immunitaire’, 2025, Le Grand Café, Centre d’Art de Saint Nazaire, France ©Salim Santa Lucia
