MAUDE ARSENAULT - RESURFACING
Deadbeat Club is pleased to present RESURFACING, a new exhibition of photography and textile works by Canadian artist and photographer MAUDE ARSENAULT.
Showing works from both Entangled and Resurfacing, honest and poetic explorations of the female experience, and diving into notions of parenthood and domesticity, this exhibition offers a special entry into Arsenault’s multidisciplinary approach and into her textured, tactile work.
Arsenault first monograph, Entangled, encapsulates a pivotal moment for Arsenault’s work, representing a shift in perspective and personal responsibility. As a young mother and “after years dedicated to creating glorified images of women,” she says of her success in fashion photography, “I came to question my role and influence in the transmission of models of femininity.”
A follow up to her debut monograph, Resurfacing furthers Arsenault’s visual poetry with ongoing, honest exploration of the female experience. Time passes; family life fractures and splinters with it. Surfaces crack under a varnish of quiet and soft tones, as folds and crevasses are mirrors of an inner, newly reappropriated body. Resurfacing is an essential extension of her work, translating the delicate and subdued power of her images into a tactile design.
