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Pervert or Detective?

Reba Maybury & Lucy McKenzie
Pervert or Detective?

Curated by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen
A collaboration between Ca’Buccari, no place press, and gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich

9 May – 29 June 2025

Ca’Buccari
Calle Buccari 3, 30132 VE
Venice, Italy
https://ca-buccari.org
Opening hours
Thursday – Sunday, 12–7pm

Opening program, Thursday, 8 May, 4–8pm
4pm: Seclusion and Publicity. Art and Architecture on the Island of Sant’Elena and Politics of Space in (Early) Modern Venice, a guided tour with art historian Stefan Neuner
5pm: Talk with Reba Maybury, Lucy McKenzie and Susan Finlay
6–8pm: Drinks and book launch of Pervert or Detective? published by no place press

The exhibition, a site-specific display by Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie, reimagines the architecture of Ca’Buccari, a new exhibition venue in Sant’Elena, Venice, founded in 2024. The former shopfront units, connected as an enfilade and framed by an arcade, are emphasized as vitrines showcasing new collaborative works by the two artists.

In Pervert or Detective? Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie dissect power, desire, and subversion in an installation including murals, drawings, paintings, and a publication. Maybury, who integrates her work as a political dominatrix into her artistic practice, manipulates the dynamics of control, compelling her male submissives to create art under her direction, only to claim it as her own. Through confession and humiliation, she dismantles notions of authorship, masculinity, and labor. McKenzie, known for her intricate trompe l’oeil paintings and conceptual installations, similarly blurs boundaries—between art and commerce, authenticity and illusion. Her work challenges power structures and exposes the unstable nature of representation.

The show, taking place on the occasion of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, is produced in collaboration between Ca’Buccari and gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich—two spaces dedicated to an experimental exhibition program at the intersection of art and architecture. Art historian Stefan Neuner will speak about Maybury’s and McKenzie’s presentation within the urban context of Sant’Elena, a residential quarter from the early twentieth century.

Pervert or Detective? opens alongside the release of a new book based on an expansive conversation between the two artists, moderated by Marie Canet. Maybury and McKenzie interrogate the logic of seduction and domination, challenge rigid binaries, and explore the material erotic, appropriation, and transformation. Edited and introduced by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, the book includes an afterword by Susan Finlay and is published by no place press (distributed by MIT press).

Reba Maybury & Lucy McKenzie
Pervert or Detective?

Curatela: Fredi Fischli e Niels Olsen
Una collaborazione tra Ca’Buccari, no place press e gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich

9 maggio – 29 giugno 2025

Ca’Buccari
Calle Buccari 3, 30132 VE
Venezia
https://ca-buccari.org
Orari di apertura:
dal giovedì al domenica, ore 12–19

Inaugurazione giovedì 8 maggio, ore 16–20

16:00: Seclusion and Publicity. Art and Architecture on the Island of Sant’Elena and Politics of Space in (Early) Modern Venice, visita guidata con storico dell’arte Stefan Neuner
17:00: Incontro con Reba Maybury, Lucy McKenzie e Susan Finlay
18:00–20:00: Aperitivo e presentazione del libro Pervert or Detective?, casa editrice no place press

La mostra di Reba Maybury e Lucy McKenzie reinventa l’architettura di Ca’Buccari, una nuova sede espositiva fondata nel 2024 nel quartiere di Sant’Elena a Venezia, con un allestimento site-specific. Le ex unità commerciali disposte una accanto all’altra nella cornice di un porticato spiccano come vetrine per le nuove opere collaborative delle due artiste.

In Pervert or Detective? Reba Maybury e Lucy McKenzie scompongono e analizzano il potere, il desiderio e la sovversione in un’installazione che include murales, disegni, dipinti e una pubblicazione. Maybury, che fa confluire nella pratica artistica la sua attività di dominatrix politica, manipola le dinamiche del controllo, costringendo i suoi maschi sottomessi a produrre arte sotto la sua direzione, per poi rivendicarla come propria. Usando strumenti come la confessione e l’umiliazione, smantella le nozioni di autorialità, mascolinità e manodopera. In maniera simile McKenzie, celebre per i suoi intricati dipinti trompe-l’oeil e le installazioni concettuali, sfuma i confini – tra arte e commercio, autenticità e illusione. Le sue opere mettono in discussione le strutture di potere esponendo la natura instabile della rappresentazione.

La mostra, che si svolge in occasione della Biennale di Architettura di Venezia di quest’anno, nasce da una collaborazione tra Ca’ Buccari e gta exhibitions, Politecnico federale di Zurigo – due spazi dedicati a un programma espositivo sperimentale al crocevia fra arte e architettura. Alla presentazione di Maybury e McKenzie nel contesto urbano di Sant’Elena, quartiere residenziale di inizio Novecento, viene dedicato un dialogo con lo storico dell’arte Stefan Neuner.

Pervert or Detective? viene inaugurata in concomitanza con l’uscita di un nuovo libro basato su un’ampia discussione tra le due artiste, moderata da Marie Canet. Maybury e McKenzie analizzano la logica della seduzione e del dominio, contestano il binarismo rigido ed esplorano l’erotismo materiale e i concetti di appropriazione e trasformazione. Il libro è curato da Fredi Fischli e Niels Olsen, che ne hanno scritto la prefazione, e contiene una postfazione di Susan Finlay. Il volume è edito da no place press (distribuito da MIT press).