Softcover in slipcase with Resurfacing
ISBN:
9780999829851
Maude Arsenault’s Entangled (Deadbeat Club, 2023) serves as a poignant, companion investigation to Resurfacing, deepening her exploration of female identity, bodily autonomy, and intergenerational memory. Where its sister volume confronts the act of emerging into self-presence, Entangled turns inward to examine the intricate, often fraught webs of domesticity, caregiving, and matrilineal heritage. Positioned within Arsenault’s broader trajectory, the work cements her transition from commercial fashion imagery into a deeply personal, formalist interrogation of privacy, exposure, and womanhood.
Aesthetically, the project relies on quiet spatial tension, soft natural illumination, and delicate gestural framing. Arsenault employs compositions where domestic interiors, textiles, and human forms become intimately intertwined, suggesting both security and restriction. Through tactile surface textures, obscured figures, and subtle atmospheric shifts, her visual language emphasizes emotional complexity over outward display. The imagery balances fragile intimacy with structural discipline, capturing the unspoken physical and psychological bonds that define domestic life.
Maude Arsenault’s Entangled (Deadbeat Club, 2023) serves as a poignant, companion investigation to Resurfacing, deepening her exploration of female identity, bodily autonomy, and intergenerational memory. Where its sister volume confronts the act of emerging into self-presence, Entangled turns inward to examine the intricate, often fraught webs of domesticity, caregiving, and matrilineal heritage. Positioned within Arsenault’s broader trajectory, the work cements her transition from commercial fashion imagery into a deeply personal, formalist interrogation of privacy, exposure, and womanhood.
Aesthetically, the project relies on quiet spatial tension, soft natural illumination, and delicate gestural framing. Arsenault employs compositions where domestic interiors, textiles, and human forms become intimately intertwined, suggesting both security and restriction. Through tactile surface textures, obscured figures, and subtle atmospheric shifts, her visual language emphasizes emotional complexity over outward display. The imagery balances fragile intimacy with structural discipline, capturing the unspoken physical and psychological bonds that define domestic life.
Maude Arsenault’s Entangled (Deadbeat Club, 2023) serves as a poignant, companion investigation to Resurfacing, deepening her exploration of female identity, bodily autonomy, and intergenerational memory. Where its sister volume confronts the act of emerging into self-presence, Entangled turns inward to examine the intricate, often fraught webs of domesticity, caregiving, and matrilineal heritage. Positioned within Arsenault’s broader trajectory, the work cements her transition from commercial fashion imagery into a deeply personal, formalist interrogation of privacy, exposure, and womanhood.
Aesthetically, the project relies on quiet spatial tension, soft natural illumination, and delicate gestural framing. Arsenault employs compositions where domestic interiors, textiles, and human forms become intimately intertwined, suggesting both security and restriction. Through tactile surface textures, obscured figures, and subtle atmospheric shifts, her visual language emphasizes emotional complexity over outward display. The imagery balances fragile intimacy with structural discipline, capturing the unspoken physical and psychological bonds that define domestic life.