constantly shedding, perpetually becoming
Pangée•Sep 18, 2025 — Nov 01, 2025
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The body is a subject exhaustively traversed in art history. Idealized, objectified, and stripped of its vulnerabilities, it has often been neutralized and discharged of its complexity. In the work of Marion Wagschal and Elisabeth Perrault, however, the body reclaims its weight and fragility as a vessel of memory and as a site of inheritance where desire, the grotesque, and the sacred coalesce. Their works lean toward one another—Perrault’s tactile assem-blages and Wagschal’s painterly tableaux— each confronting intimacy and loss with disarming candor.
Wagschal’s paintings, monumental yet tender, stage a confrontation with the cycles of life and death. In Colossus (2016), she depicts her own nude body with a skull placed between her legs, a provocation that collapses the inevitabilities of birth and death into a single image. Mortality surfaces again in Atelier (1991), inspired by a real skeleton that once hung in Concordia University’s art department...More
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constantly shedding, perpetually becoming
Pangée•Sep 18, 2025 — Nov 01, 2025
Press Release
The body is a subject exhaustively traversed in art history. Idealized, objectified, and stripped of its vulnerabilities, it has often been neutralized and discharged of its complexity. In the work of Marion Wagschal and Elisabeth Perrault, however, the body reclaims its weight and fragility as a vessel of memory and as a site of inheritance where desire, the grotesque, and the sacred coalesce. Their works lean toward one another—Perrault’s tactile assem-blages and Wagschal’s painterly tableaux— each confronting intimacy and loss with disarming candor.
Wagschal’s paintings, monumental yet tender, stage a confrontation with the cycles of life and death. In Colossus (2016), she depicts her own nude body with a skull placed between her legs, a provocation that collapses the inevitabilities of birth and death into a single image. Mortality surfaces again in Atelier (1991), inspired by a real skeleton that once hung in Concordia University’s art department...More
