| | | |  | | | Maisie Cousins: Sprinkles and Fly, 2023
© Maisie Cousins, Courtesy TJ Boulting | | | | | | SMORGASBORD | | | | 28 April - 20 June 2024 | | | Opening: Saturday, 27 April, 12 – 3 pm
Berlin Gallery Weekend Special opening hours:
Saturday, 27 April, 12 – 3 pm (Opening)
Sunday, 28 April, 1 – 6 pm | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Maisie Cousins: Rubbish 1, 2018
© Maisie Cousins, Courtesy TJ Boulting | | | | | | "SMORGASBORD" brings together a curated selection of works from 2017 to 2024 by British photographer and visual artist Maisie Cousins and celebrates her first solo show in Germany.
Cousins' earliest works here reveal her interest and exploration of nature and sexuality, and the thin, precarious line where, for a brief moment, flowers, food and bodies are at their peak of ripeness. Through brightly coloured close-ups of glossy liquid covered fruit, petals, skin and bugs, the works celebrate joy and beauty between attraction and repulsion. | | | | | |  | | | Maisie Cousins: Slug, 2015
© Maisie Cousins, Courtesy TJ Boulting | | | | | | In Cousins’ most recent work, decaying sticky food and flowers are now superseded by mini plastic pigs, boiled sweets, or a brightly coloured bouncy ball. These new subjects are presented in epic or intimate scaled photographs, always in Cousins’ signature tightly cropped compositions and bright colours. This shift in subject matter is marked by Cousins becoming a mother, and yet seeing the world through nostalgic toys and sweets from childhood.
Unashamedly provocative and sensual, the exhibited pieces are bold testaments that celebrate the female body and challenge the mainstream misogynistic notions of perfect and clean beauty. Offering witty, seductive and socially significant imagery, Cousins is undoubtedly one of the most exciting visual artists of her generation. | | | | | |  | | | Maisie Cousins: Snails, 2019
© Maisie Cousins, Courtesy TJ Boulting | | | | | | Maisie Cousins, born in 1992 in London, studied Fine Art Photography at Brighton University. Her work has been exhibited internationally in numerous solo and group shows.
In 2019 she was awarded one of FOAM Amsterdam’s FOAM Talents with a travelling exhibition to London and New York. She has exhibited in several international photography festivals, including the Vogue Photo Festival in Milan, 2016, Fotofo festival, Slovakia, 2018, the European Month of Photography Luxembourg, the Look Photo Biennial, 2019, and the Bangkok Art Biennial 2020.
Maisie Cousins’ works can be found in private and public collections around the world. | | | | | |  | | | Maisie Cousins: Prickly Pear, 2017
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