In Elsa Rouy’s expansive paintings, bodies writhe and merge with one another, their contortions evocative of deep pleasure and unbearable pain. For “The Screaming Object,” her latest exhibition at Guts Gallery in London, which closed last month, the British artist presented a 7.5-meter-long frieze, which combines sexual carnality, tenderness, and brutal emotion. “The scream in my work is used as an expulsion of emotion and it’s never defined whether this emotion is good or not,” said the artist. “I intentionally make the faces ambiguously contorted so it’s hard to know the exact feeling.”