TAP wrapped up Margeaux Collyer’s solo exhibition Doodles this past weekend. Collyer’s psychedelic perspective on the human body explores the strangeness of flesh, of life, and of our city. Penises, breasts, grotesque faces are all rendered in the fine squirming line of pencil, filled in with busy hypercolour.
Collyer rose to local prominence in 2016 when Facebook’s social media platform permanently banned her for sharing her original artistic medium— reconstructive nipple tattoos for Breast cancer survivors. A testament to her skill, these micropigment tattoos were flagged by the Facebook auto-censorship tool. Her devotion to her fellow human beings wasn’t enough to permit areolas and she remains banned to this day.
The strangeness and physical alienation of disease is present in her work now. The people and landscapes have peculiar tumors, the landscapes of our own city are as busy as a Petri dish. Her doodles of the Forks are recognizable and simultaneously alienating, as if viewed through recently rubbed eyes. Still, one can tell, it’s our home.
If you missed the exhibition at TAP, you can follow Margeaux Collyer on Instagram at @margeauxcollyer.
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