The exhibition, a site-specific show by Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie, reimagines the structure of Ca’Buccari, a brand new exhibition venue in Sant’Elena, Venice, based in 2024. The previous shopfront items, linked as an enfilade and framed by an arcade, are emphasised as vitrines showcasing new collaborative works by the 2 artists.
In “Pervert or Detective?” Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie dissect energy, need, and subversion in an set up together with murals, drawings, work, and a publication. Maybury, who integrates her work as a political dominatrix into her creative follow, manipulates the dynamics of management, compelling her male submissives to create artwork below her path, solely to say it as her personal. By way of confession and humiliation, she dismantles notions of authorship, masculinity, and labor. McKenzie, identified for her intricate trompe l’oeil work and conceptual installations, equally blurs boundaries—between artwork and commerce, authen- ticity and phantasm. Her work challenges energy constructions and exposes the unstable nature of illustration.
The present, happening on the event of this yr’s Venice Structure Biennale, is produced in collaboration between Ca’Buccari and gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich—two areas devoted to an experimental exhibition program on the intersection of artwork and structure. Artwork historian Stefan Neuner will discuss Maybury’s and McKenzie’s presentation throughout the city context of Sant’Elena, a residential quarter from the early twentieth century.
“Pervert or Detective?” opens alongside the discharge of a brand new e book primarily based on an expansive dialog between the 2 artists, moderated by Marie Canet. Maybury and McKenzie interrogate the logic of seduction and domination, problem inflexible binaries, and discover the fabric erotic, appropriation, and transformation. Edited and launched by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, the e book consists of an afterword by Susan Finlay and is revealed by no place press (distributed by MIT press).
at Ca’Buccari, Venice
till June 29, 2025
