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    Twined rope of hair coming from ceiling and draping over human arm-like metal shape coming from wall.
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    sharply then achingly then gone, Madeleine Bender, 2024, artist's wrist splint inserts, artist's hair, bolts, dimensions variable

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    Feathered biomorphic object on floor (London park and garden bird feathers), and shearling tucked into the gap between the wall and floor where a skirting board should be.
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    Nestling (install image), Madeleine Bender, 2023, plaster casts, found feathers, shearling offcuts

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    3 vertical strips of clear tape hung on wall from large rusty curved nails, small desk fan pointed towards them.
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    These farewells are the way of things: dust to dust, Madeleine Bender, 2024, Sellotape, found and polished ship nails, desk fan, dust from my childhood drawers
(Chicago, 2008 - 2016), from where I live now (Bow, 2022 - present), from my studio (Bloomsbury, 2023 - present).

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    Two casts of full set of toes curled over, cast in latex, stitched together with light pink thread, tucked behind a pipe going vertically up a wall.
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    On holding together (install detail), Madeleine Bender, 2023, latex casts, pointe shoe thread, 8 x 20 x 6 cm

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    Sheet of shiny metal with scar-like blobs of grey fluff stitched into it with light pink thread, attached to wall with bolts.
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    Will it remember me once I have left?, Madeleine Bender, 2024, aluminium, bolts, dust from artist's home, pointe shoe thread, 15 x 20 cm

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Madeleine Bender – MA/MFA

I work across sculpture, sound, video, image, and writing, exploring boundaries and definitions of the body in time and space. Can the body stretch into the walls of the domestic space? Do the products of the body’s endless shedding remain part of the self? I draw on my own body and experiences of dance, illness, and being femme in the world. My practice often utilises dislocation and fragmentation as a tool, alienating personal materials from their origins, dust from deep under the sofa, hair from my hairbrush, creaking and cracking noises I make as I move.

Based in London.