Reba Maybury is an artist, writer, and dominatrix sometimes working under the name Mistress Rebecca. Her work explores the tension between her perceived strength as an object of fantasy and how through the reality of sex work she attempts to turn this power into something tangible. She has published Dining with Humpty Dumpty (2017) and Faster than an Erection (2021). Themes of capital, labor, sexuality, female perversion, desire, banality, pleasure, bureaucracy as torture, and humiliation are essential themes to her practice. Maybury has exhibited at SIMIAN, Copenhagen; Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Luma Westbau, Zurich; HFKD, Holstebro, Denmark; Arcadia Missa, London; and Company Gallery, New York.

Lucy McKenzie is an artist whose work encompasses painting, installation, design, fiction, and curation. Her work as a painter is often preoccupied with outlying forms, including public murals and sculptures, schemes of decorative interiors, map making, and institutional display, among others. McKenzie has had solo exhibitions at Z33, Hasselt, BE; Meyer Kainer, Vienna; La Verrière, Brussels; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool; Galerie Daniel Buchholz, New York; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; Art Institute of Chicago; the Artist’s Institute, New York; and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, among others.

• Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, Pervert or Detective as Practice
• Marie Canet Paris, November 11
• Conversation between Marie Canet, Reba Maybury, and Lucy McKenzie
• Susan Finlay, “Long Live the New Flesh”: Reba Maybury, Lucy McKenzie, the Medium, the Message, and a Great Variety of Surfaces
• Reading and Viewing List
• Glossary