Margaux Valengin
Photo by Kay Hickman
Margaux Valengin is a painter who examines the boundaries of the abstract and the figurative.
Informed by her formative training in France, Belgium, and England, the work bears the influence of female surrealist painters. Through a collage-based process, rooted in both physical and digital archival research, she assembles pictures comprised of scientific illustration and internet stock images. With allusions to European art history, Valengin’s paintings depict the persistence of female bodies, flora, and fauna under the strictures of capitalist society and pose urgent questions of class and gender.
Queens, NY
Born 1992, Péronne, France
2016 MA Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
2014 BA ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium