Maude Deslauriers
MFA Student, Painting and Drawing
I often imagine myself as a giant mouth that wants to touch, kiss, feel. When I open my eyes and look around me, I see sensual beings who want to grow, to communicate, to seduce and be seduced, to live and to reproduce. They live in a vessel, an envelope of sensations, feelings. It becomes a place for visible and invisible things to happen. Water, sun, and wind model it just like fear, pain, joy or love. A quiet monologue emerges slowly, and soon it is difficult to decide whether the voice comes from the outside or from within. Leaving the old skin behind, I wonder what shape this new body will have?
Maude is a visual artist currently working mainly with drawing and painting on paper, but she is also interested in body movement and video. She is fascinated by biology and botany, as well as the idea of disrupting Linnaeus’s taxonomy system. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and the United States.
Image: Time After Anthesis (2), Watercolor and gouache on Arches paper, 12 x 17 in, 2019