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Emilie Louise Gossiaux (they/them)

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Emilie Louise Gossiaux often explores the interdependence of humans and animals in their work and regards their late guide dog, London, as an equal collaborator. When London’s health started deteriorating in 2024, Gossiaux began working on the one-hundred hand-built ceramic sculptures that make up Kong Play. By producing multiples of their dog’s favorite chew toy, they imagined a pleasure-filled afterlife for London, who died in September 2025. 

Emilie Louise Gossiaux suele explorar la interdependencia entre humanos y animales en su obra y consideraba a su perro guía, London, como un colaborador y un igual. Cuando la salud de London comenzó a deteriorarse en 2024, Gossiaux empezó la producción de las cien esculturas de cerámica hechas a mano que componen Kong Play. Al crear múltiples réplicas del juguete favorito de su perro, imaginó una vida feliz después de la muerte para London, quien murió en septiembre de 2025.

Co-Shaping One Another with the Moon, 2025

The drawing shows a pale blue background made of pencil strokes. Scattered across the entire surface are many small, yellow, five-pointed stars, irregularly spaced, with a single small blue moon near the upper left. On the left side of the composition, a nude figure with short brown hair and eyes closed floats upright as if suspended in midair, facing right. On the right side, a dog figure floats upright, facing left, with eyes closed. Extending between their figures is a long, pale, horizontal form connecting them. 
The drawing shows a pale blue background made of pencil strokes. Scattered across the entire surface are many small, yellow, five-pointed stars, irregularly spaced, with a single small blue moon near the upper left. On the left side of the composition, a nude figure with short brown hair and eyes closed floats upright as if suspended in midair, facing right. On the right side, a dog figure floats upright, facing left, with eyes closed. Extending between their figures is a long, pale, horizontal form connecting them. 

Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Co-Shaping One Another with the Moon, 2025. Ballpoint pen and crayon on paper, 23 x 35 in. (58.4 x 88.9 cm). Collection of the artist. © Emilie Louise Gossiaux. Image courtesy the artist and David Peter Francis, New York. Photograph by Charles Benton

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