Cathy de Monchaux

Born in 1960 in London, she lives and works there.

From the intimate, overtly sexual objects of the 1980s to the more monumental installations that won her the Turner Prize in 1998, Cathy de Monchaux's sculptures retain an air of strange familiarity that makes them both appealing and disturbing. Composed of various materials, from velvet to steel, from ribbon to bolts, her objects weave ambiguous links between the soft and the hard. Satiny turgidity and intimate lace patterns are sheathed, screwed, and bristling with golden spikes, like the expression of Victorian eroticism in a gothic drama.

By offering her the Maison éclusière, le Printemps de septembre allows her to present an entirely new body of work that the artist envisions as "a sumptuous and shapeless chaos, a visual effervescence".