January 10 – 25, 2023

Madison Bycroft

The fouled compass, 2020

HD video and sound. Duration: 24m 14s

Curated by Cristina Ramos

they move with the spirit of water
a splash and they are gone
they gather around at night
while we sleep
dreaming with a sudden murmur
sensually
imagining the dislocation of time
they tell each other their dreams
“I dreamt I was picking wheat”
and interpret them
now they wiggle in the heat
their scaly bodies
still
making knots like mouths

– Cristina Ramos

Madison Bycroft (born 1987) lives and works in Marseille.
Bycroft is a graduate from the University of South Australia (2013), and the MFA program at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2016). Working with video, sculpture and performance, Madison Bycroft’s current interests extend into forms of reading and writing, expression and refusal. The politics of illegibility and legibility are explored through language and material, asking how ‘sense’ is framed by historical contexts, biases, and structures of power.

Madison Bycroft, The fouled compass, 2020, HD video and sound, video still, 24’14”