Mathilde Albouy (b. 1997, France) lives and works in Paris. Playing on both formal and conceptual paradoxes, Albouy’s sculptural work invites the viewer into a game whose rules remain deliberately unstable. It is unclear whether the encounter with her sculptures constitutes an act of courtship or predation, confronting us with a form of dangerous seduction. Nourished by feminist science fiction, Albouy mobilises the fictions generated by her works as political tools through which to question established, binary constructions of reality. By subverting scale and material, these sometimes sharp or toxic objects assume an almost autonomous presence, revealing how the beauty of objects, particularly those coded as feminine, can both conceal and reproduce structures of oppression.

Recent solo exhibitions include: The Mouth of the Vase, Spazio Sassetti, Florence, Italy (2026), Lucky You, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France (2026), Trust Me, Galerie Derouillon,Paris, France (2023). Group exhibitions include: Beyond our Horizons, 19M, Paris (2026), Future Relics, Union Pacific, London (2025), Battle Fatigue, by La Méditerranée, Chateau La Coste, Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France (2025), Arcanes, rituels et chimères, Frac Corsica, Corte, France (2024), Augmented Paris, Zhi Art Museum, Chengdu, China (2024), Straight no Chaser, Zuzeum Art Center, Riga, Latvia (2024), Revenir du présent, regards croisés sur la scène actuelle, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France (2024), Haniwa Boogie-Woogie, FORMA, Paris, France (2023), and House of dreamers, Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels (2023).

Her work is held in the collections of Collection Emerige, Malakoff; Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections, Paris; Spazio Almag, Brescia; Zhi Art Museum, Chengdu; and Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga.