Madeleine Birks- BA (Hons) Fine Art
Madeleine’s practice mirrors the rhythm of breath: unending expansions and contractions of the body through digitalised techniques. Within this overarching obsession, organic forms are made uncanny as they are severed, meshed, and made abject into hard, inorganic and structured materiality through varying uses of lasercut. This fracturing and reprocessing of the flesh into alternative materialities is ironically corrective; her work seeks new lenses of ontological understanding that soothe the inherent vulnerability of embodiment, and are freed from the cultural gaze on the female form. The explorations of self as material are ultimately exercises in visualising somatic fallout, the unending alien sensations that arise from transgressions against the developing body, made visually literal through permeations of the constructed bodies and the internal dynamics between her works.
