Zalucky (Toronto, 2026)

Anatomy of a shadow

This group exhibition brings together the work of Marie-Claude Lacroix, Caroline Mauxion, Sophia Oppel and Anouk Verviers to explore the body as a site of negotiation between chronic illness, ecological crisis, and 21st century medical imaging technologies. Across painting, photography, video, and sculptural interventions, their practices ask how we see—and are seen—when diagnosis becomes both a promise and a form of exposure.

Working within the temporalities of chronic illness—flare, remission, latency—the artists resist the linear narratives often imposed by clinical discourse. Instead of presenting the body as a problem to be solved, they foreground it as a porous ecosystem shaped by environmental toxicity, extractive economies, and infrastructures of care.

Central to the exhibition is a critical engagement with modern diagnostic imaging—MRI scans, X-rays, 3D technology —tools that render the body transparent while translating it into data. These technologies promise objectivity, yet they produce highly mediated images shaped by algorithms and institutional bias. Informed by queer theory and crip studies, Mauxion’s work adopts the aesthetics of the X-ray to regain agency over her body and reveal the mechanisms of normalization that structure bodies and desires. Verviers reframes medical archives to question who is legible within them and whose pain remains statistically marginal. Oppel stages encounters between organic matter and imaging devices, exposing the tension between lived sensation and machinic vision. Lacroix’s paintings extend this inquiry through layered surfaces that evoke tissue, erosion, and atmospheric disturbance, collapsing interior and exterior worlds.

Through individual practices that foreground vulnerability, these artists invite us to reconsider what it means to inhabit a body in a century defined by acceleration, extraction, and the relentless production of images.