Madison Bycroft

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.

Bycroft is interested in how we might re-imagine “reading” (in its expanded sense) and understanding, not as achievement, but as relationship.

Madison Bycroft has displayed their work in Beirut, Singapore and New York, but also in France, notably at the CAC Brétigny, the Rennes Biennale and the Palais de Tokyo. In 2022, several performance projects led them to present their work at the Art Basel fair in Switzerland, in the botanical gardens of Cordoba, and at MAXXI L’Aquila. More recently, they introduced Joystick, a video game created in collaboration with Ubisoft.