Galerie Marguo is delighted to present Take Your Pleasure Seriously, an exhibition of new and recent works by the Thai-Polish artist Oh de Laval. Opening during Art Paris fair week and on view from 1 April to 6 May 2023, this is the artist’s first exhibition at Galerie Marguo, following a solo presentation with the gallery at last year’s Art Paris fair.
As its directive title suggests, the paintings, drawings, and sculpture presented in this exhibition are something of a polemic against the type of commodified self-care that characterizes contemporary life. According to the artist, the notion of pleasure has little to do with the supplements, treatments, and trimmings packaged and sold to us under the broad guise of “wellness”, and everything to do with a deeply embodied understanding that hinges on the quivering boundary between sensual gratification and mortal danger. Oh de Laval broaches the limits of these oppositional forces through confectionary depictions of riotous, ribald fantasies that are alternately bizarre, cutesy, and mordantly funny.
