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For Liste 2023, Margot Samel presents new works by Swiss artist Sarah Margnetti (b. 1983, Monthey, Switzerland). Margnetti’s presentation includes four new trompe l’oeil paintings and a site-specific mural from her caryatid series. As a master of the trompe l’oeil’ technique, Margnetti blends the body with architectural elements in comic hybridizations that unsettle notions of gender, sexuality, and domesticity. The artist routinely represents the human body in disconnected parts, either out-of-scale, concealed behind curtains or as structural elements. Often, these elements are rendered …