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.

Margaux Valengin (born 1992, France) received a BFA from ENSAV La Cambre (Belgium) and an MFA from the Royal College of Art (UK). In 2022, she was a recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. She has had solo exhibitions at Galerie PACT (Paris, France), Spring Break Art Show, curated by Julie Curtiss (New York, USA), Union Gallery (London, UK) and Y2K Group (New York, USA). Group exhibitions of her work include Asia Art Center (Beijing, China), Future Gallery (Berlin, Germany), Galerie PACT (Paris, France), Y2K Group (New York, USA), Union Gallery (London, UK), and SIGNAL (New York, USA).