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Elsa Rouy

I Could Always Crack a Joke, 2022
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle German Etching High Textured 310gsm Matt Warm White Paper
50 x 50 cm
19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in
Edition of 50 plus 1 artist's proof
Hand signed and numbered by the artist
Certificate of Authenticity Included
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Elsa Rouy, I Could Always Crack a Joke, 2022
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London based artist Elsa Rouy (Sittingbourne, Kent) creates art with a female gaze. Rouy explores new ways of expressing semi-autobiographical and social narratives following a discourse related to the human...
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London based artist Elsa Rouy (Sittingbourne, Kent) creates art with a female gaze. Rouy explores new ways of expressing semi-autobiographical and social narratives following a discourse related to the human condition.

She has an interest in female sexual expression and the imperfect-self. Her artworks satirize immoral thoughts that are terrifying, centring around feelings of shame and guilt. To explore this, Rouy paints hedonistic grotesque figures often of monstrous women with their sexual organs revealed. To imitate her hyperawareness of having a body she subverts and delocalizes depictions of female and male genitalia to form androgenous or fluid figures that resonate to the artist’s identity while also removing a fixed identity.

Rouy’s practice underlines the parts of ourselves that we find uncomfortable, accentuated by ardent depictions of bodily fluids; such as blood, pus, semen, faeces, milk, urine, sweat and saliva. There is a link between bodily fluids and the notion of being a human and our mortality. The leaking of bodily fluids breaks the containment associated with correctness and purity, which are constantly strived for in our society, our bodies and our minds. The bodily fluids are presented to expose the unsavoury parts of being human that are considered taboo.

Her artwork explores societal and internal power roles. Rouy appropriates the human body to discuss relationships between people and the self that are saturated with child-like dependency, intrusion and boundaries. Alongside a distortion of interior and exterior bodies, the artworks denote emotional illusion, trust and trepidation between people. The figures often have connections to expulsion and birth that act simultaneously as a harbouring or a needed release of these emotional burdens.

We pack our prints safely rolled in acid-proof paper and deliver them in Guts branded postage tubes. Unpack the work as soon as it arrives, keeping the acid-proof paper on top of the surface. Ensure to weigh down the four corners of the print with a soft object. Alternatively, you can place a sheet of plywood or cardboard on top to flatten it out. Handle the print by its edges and avoid touching the surface.
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