Maisie Cousins
Exploring themes of power, femininity, nature, technology, the body and indulgence, Maisie Cousin’s brightly coloured photographs are at once seductive and repelling. Embracing every part of the human body, its processes and impulses, Cousin’s work seeks to present femininity and sexuality in a positive and open way.
There is a highly haptic quality to Cousin’s work: flesh, pink flowers, ripe, colourful fruit, crawling insects, are covered in sticky, glistening liquid that binds them together in visceral, sensual images that yearn to be touched. Yet, the body remains untouchable behind its glossy screen. Mesmerising, alluring, real, it beckons you in and holds you there whether you like it or not.
bumhole, 2015
Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle Pearl
118.9 x 79.3 cm
everybody’s pining for some body, 2017
Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle Pearl
118.9 x 79.3 cm
orchid, 2015
Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle Pearl
42 x 28 cm
