Consumption, shame, and guilt, are recurring themes in Madelyne Beckles' work. Using photo-based imagery and readymade objects, she attempts to deconstruct these ideas using a critical race and feminist framework. Building on these links between the personal and the collective, Arrangements explores contexts of consumerism through methods of retail display and the interiority of object fetishism.
Interview with Madelyne Beckles:
Madelyne Beckles is a Toronto-based artist. Her work centres on the performativity of narcissism and self-deprecation. Consumption, overt-sexuality, shame, and guilt are recurring themes in her work that she attempts to deconstruct using a critical race feminist frame work through the use of her body, and ready made objects, and imagery.
