Marguerite Wibaux: Covet Thy Neighbor

Raised in Rome where her father worked for the Vatican, Paris-based artist Marguerite Wibaux grew up steeped in incense, iconography, and baroque ritual. Wibaux once believed she had a religious calling—until she realized what truly captivated her was not faith, but the body and its image. Her solo NYC exhibition debut, Covet Thy Neighbor, recently opened in Tribeca at The Locker Room (253 Church St) thru Feb 28. With a collection of over 25 new paintings & sculptures (including her take on a Holy Water fountain and a confessional), Wibaux examines the charged threshold where desire becomes devotion and the sacred & sensual share the same temperature: baroque sensuality infused with dangerous femininity and the charged atmosphere of contemporary nights.

For Covet Thy Neighbor, The Locker Room will be transformed into a church stripped of doctrine. Nightclub reds, bedroom violets, and hints of half-remembered altars frame bodies entering new, ambiguous relationships: neighbors, lovers, disciples, strangers.

Installation View, Marguerite Wibaux: Covet Thy Neighbor, 253 Church St, NY, NY 10013, New York, NY 10001 January 15–February 28, 2026 Photography courtesy Locker Room and Marguerite Wibaux

For more information about Marguerite’s work, please visit her site. She can also be found on Instagram here. Also, the magazine featured an interview with her, which can be found here. For more information about this exhibition at the Locker Room on the gallery’s website here.

Marguerite Wibaux: Covet Thy Neighbor

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