Elsa Rouy’s raw paintings dredge up uneasy feelings. The artist depicts the body distorted, chopped up and remade, sometimes dripping in bright red or pink gore. Her human forms bare their teeth, twist their limbs at unnatural angles, and sometimes tangle themselves passionately around one another. There is a sheen to their skin which evokes both the facade of digitally created flesh and the body’s natural liquids. The artist has just opened a solo show, Ephialtes, at GNYP in Antwerp, and is also championed by Guts in London.
Elsa Rouy, the Painter Turning Her Worst Nightmares Into Art
Emily Steer, AnOther Magazine, 5 März 2024
