The wild world of Cathy de Monchaux revealed in exhibition at Paris's Palais de Tokyo

A major survey of British sculptor Cathy de Monchaux, titled “Studio Wounds and Battles: Desire is the Reiteration of Hope,” opened at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, marking her first significant exhibition in more than 25 years. De Monchaux rose quickly in the 1990s, including a Turner Prize nomination in 1998 and acquisitions by Tate, but said opportunities later dried up even as she continued working while raising her son as a single mother. The exhibition avoids a chronological structure, mixing early works such as a student-made life-sized unicorn of cane and tissue paper with new pieces completed in situ at the museum. The show highlights her erotic, baroque, and fantastical sculptural language, including wall-mounted tableaux of faceless pregnant figures and other hybrid forms shaped by childhood visits to London museums like the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum.

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