Margaux Valengin

Lives and works in Elmhurst, NY

Artist statement

Margaux Valengin’s paintings consider corporeality as both artifice and animality, staging richly ambiguous fables of bodily aggression, protection, and vulnerability, often between paired beings. The bodies populating her works invoke dark, inward, explicitly psychic moods, and frequently confront the viewer in direct address with a kind of iconic authority. Whether human, horse, dog, or cat, these taut, articulated, fragmentary figures silently project defiance, protection, sinuous arousal, nocturnal menace or melancholy.

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