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Elsa Rouy
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介紹
All of Rouy’s works are pervaded by a certain unknowability, an abject ‘inbetweenness,’ they refuse to be constrained to any one specific meaning. Rouy’s works are provocative, they interrogate perceived notions of gender, sex and feeling and they intrude and stick themselves irreversibly onto the psychology of their viewers.
London based artist Elsa Rouy creates images of intense psychological depth. Rouy describes her work as “a visual portrayal of abstruse emotions.” Through painting, Rouy attempts to get to the heart of her own personal experience as a woman.
Throughout her oeuvre, physical boundaries seem to dissipate: bodies split and rupture, separate skins seep and melt into one another and leaking bodily fluids drip and mingle together. For Rouy, bodies are in a constant state of ‘becoming,’ they are never static or inert, instead, they are a site of process and flux. Critical theorist Mikhail Bakhtin’s formulation of the grotesque body is one that “is not separated from the rest of the world.” For Bakhtin, this kind of body is not “a closed, completed unit;” instead “it is unfinished, [it] outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits.” Rouy’s grotesque bodies constantly extend and exceed beyond their own physical bounds. By stressing the parts of the body that represent the osmosis between the exterior, outside world and the interior, bodily world, (the breasts; the genitalia, the mouth and the eyes) Rouy creates a world in which the strict delineation between different bodies is wiped away and effaced.
Many of Rouy’s works are also tinged with feelings of extreme tenderness. Bodies fuse together in transfigured sex acts, weeping, desperate eyes look out blankly beyond the viewer and supple hands clutch at and caress other shoulders and torsos. These are human beings portrayed at their most vulnerable. Throughout Rouy’s oeuvre, figures constantly occupy situations that sit uncomfortably between that of suffering and that of pleasure. Faces could be contorted in pain, distorted and misshapen, with tongues writhing under the unspeakability of suffering or they could be thrown back in carnal rapture; succumbing to the throes of sexual abandon. All of Rouy’s works are pervaded by a certain unknowability, an abject ‘inbetweenness,’ they refuse to be constrained to any one specific meaning. Rouy’s works are provocative, they interrogate perceived notions of gender, sex and feeling and they intrude and stick themselves irreversibly onto the psychology of their viewers.
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Pleasure of a silent image disturbed, 2023Bleach, acrylic and charcoal on canvas170 x 185 cm
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傳記
Courtesy of Brynley Odu Davies
B. 2000, Sittingbourne, UK. Based in London UK.
Education
2018-2021 Camberwell College of the Arts (UAL), BA First Class Hons Painting, London
2016-2018 University for the creative arts, Level 3 extended diploma in art and design
Solo Exhibitions
2024 A Screaming Object, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2024 Ephialtes, GNYP Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 The Only Daughter, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, (USA)
2022 I Could Always Crack a Joke, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2021 A Demon in a Sundress, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 Plastic Doesn’t Sweat, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 Platform, Unit London, London, (UK)
Art Fairs
2024 Fair Art Antwerp 4th2023 Untitled, Miami Beach, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
2023 Steve Turner, Future Fair, New York, NY (USA)
2023 Wrinkles in My Sheets, Ye Collective, Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
Group Exhibitions
2025 The Body Speaks, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2024 Mary With(out) Child, GNYP Gallery, Antwerp2024 Obsidian Upset, Des Bains, London, (UK)
2024 JITTERS, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY (USA)2024 Aperitif, Palazzo Monti, Italy
2024 Softer, Softest, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2024 The Body Electric, Larsen Warner, Stockholm, Sweden, (SE)
2024 NEW NOW: Part 2, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 Bye Bye Cowboy, Arusha Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 Saints and Sinners, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 Elsa Rouy & Emil Urbanek, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany
2023 The Artist is Present, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 (It's My Party) I Can Cry if I Want to, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2022 Human In Training, Tuesday to Friday, Valencia, Spain
2022 There Goes the Neighbourhood, Castor Gallery, London, (UK)
2022 ‘…and kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud.’, Kupfer Projects, London, (UK)
2022 Out of Nowhere, Soho Revue, London, (UK)
2022 Two Sisters, Roman Road Gallery, London, (UK)
2022 Damned If I Do, Gallery 46 Whitechapel, London, (UK)
2022 CACOTOPIA, Annka Kultys, London, (UK)
2021 Brain Food Charity Auction, The Auction Collective, London, (UK)
2021 I Have My Eye On You, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Reality Check, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2021 Don't Go South, Studio Berkheim, Stuttgart, Germany
2021 A New Art World, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2021 Introducing, The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, London, (UK)
2021 For The Many Not The Few, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 Limbo, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2020 Begin Again, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 When spiders unite they can tie down a lion, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 Drawn Together, Unit London, London, (UK)
2020 No time like the present, Public Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 Guts Gallery Claps back, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 When Shit Hits The Fan, Guts Gallery, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
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展覽
The Body Speaks
2025年1月10日 - 2月4日繼續Elsa Rouy
A Screaming Object2024年11月29日 - 12月21日繼續Softer, Softest
2024年4月26日 - 5月21日繼續NEW NOW
Co-curated by Ell Pennick and Brynley Odu Davies2023年12月1日 - 2024年2月6日繼續Saints and Sinners
2023年6月9日 - 7月7日繼續(IT’S MY PARTY) I CAN CRY IF I WANT TO
2023年1月13日 - 2月2日繼續The Artist is Present
2022年10月7日 - 11月3日繼續ELSA ROUY
I Could Always Crack A Joke 2022年5月5日 - 5月26日‘I Could Always Crack a Joke’ showcases a new body of work by Elsa Rouy that ridicules, empathises with, and...繼續REALITY CHECK
2021年9月23日 - 10月3日Opening: Thur 23 Sept 6-9pm Exhibition Location: Anderson Contemporary, Carpenter’s Wharf Studios, 4b Roach Road, ...繼續ELSA ROUY
A DEMON IN A SUNDRESS2021年8月19日 - 8月26日Private View: 19th August 6-9pm Location: 147 Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0NY General Opening Hours: 11 - 6...繼續A NEW ART WORLD
A NEW ART WORLD IS POSSIBLE.2021年7月22日 - 7月29日Private View: Thursday 22 July 6-9pm Opening Hours: Tues - Sun 11am - 6pm Location: 147 Stoke Newington High Street, Lon...繼續INTRODUCING
London Gallery Weekend at The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ2021年6月4日 - 6月6日London Gallery Weekend 4-6 June 2021 11am - 8pm (Opening day) 11am - 6pm (Regular hours) The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, 62 ...繼續
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報導
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Millie Walton, Plaster, 2025年1月8日Why Elsa Rouy’s New Exhibition ‘A Screaming Object’ Is Beautifully Brutal
Lara Sherris, SHOWstudio, 2024年12月4日Who. What. Where? No. 92
Amber Rawlings, Hunger, 2024年11月26日The Radar: Elsa Rouy, Julia Kowalska and Clark Keatley
Plaster, 2024年8月13日This Exhibition Explores the Sinister Side of Being a Girl Online
Sofia Hallstrom, AnOther Magazine, 2024年8月13日This exhibition is a Tumblr-inspired, neo-noir tale of modern girlhood
Ayla Angelos, Dazed, 2024年8月9日Elsa Rouy: In conversation with the artist championing the grotesque
Izabelle Pullin, Shift, 2024年5月16日Elsa Rouy, the Painter Turning Her Worst Nightmares Into Art
Emily Steer, AnOther Magazine, 2024年3月5日How to nail your next art fair
Amah-Rose Abrams and Josephine Binta Judd, GQ Magazine, 2023年10月11日Elsa Rouy Talks About Her Art, Shame and Guilt The female Sexual Gaze, Creative Process & More
Rubén Palma, Overstandard, 2023年9月21日10 Emerging Painters Born in the 2000s to Watch Now
Bella Bonner-Evans, Artsy, 2023年8月10日MUST-SEE EXHIBITIONS BY QUEER ARTISTS
Marni McFall, FLANNELS, 2023年6月15日Reflections and Resilience: The Bold Spectrum of LGBTQIA+ Artistry at the ‘Saints and Sinners’ Exhibition
Vanity Teen, 2023年6月13日The defiant new queer art show fuelled by ‘disgust at the world’
Zoe Whitfield, Dazed, 2023年6月9日"SAINTS AND SINNERS" AT GUTS GALLERY DEPICTS A JOURNEY OF LGBTQIA+ RESILIENCE
Sofia de la Cruz, Hypebae, 2023年6月8日Saints and Sinners
Art Plugged, 2023年6月8日Art shows to leave the house for in June 2023
Ashleigh Kane, Dazed, 2023年6月5日‘Saints and Sinners’ platforms LGBTQIA+ artists during Pride Month.
QX Magazine, 2023年6月1日The art of the artist portrait, with photographer Brynley Odu Davies
Olivia Hingley, It's Nice That, 2023年5月30日The artist and the work: Portraits capturing creative solitude
Ry Gavin, Hunger Magazine, 2023年5月5日Portraits of young British artists in the seclusion of their studios
Gilda Bruno, Dazed, 2023年5月4日Exploring the depths of the human experience with Elsa Rouy's figurative paintings
Joey Levenson, It's Nice That, 2023年5月2日Sex, sci-fi and Scottish patriotism: 200 UK artists caught at work
Jade Wickes, The Face, 2023年4月26日SUPERHEROINES
Christiane Meixner and Clara Zimmermann, Weltkunst, 2023年4月19日103: Show Us Your Guts (Gallery)
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Tahney Fosdike, Plinth, 2023年1月27日The exhibition about femininity, sexualisation, & crying on your birthday
Millen Brown-Ewens, i-D Magazine, 2023年1月19日Sensual and grotesque depictions of modern womanhood
Emily Dinsdale, Dazed, 2023年1月16日Cate Blanchett’s Tàr, getting grotesque with Guts Gallery and a Lychee Martini at Chet’s
Hero Magazine, 2023年1月13日Art shows to leave the house for this January
Ashleigh Kane, Dazed, 2023年1月11日FOUR SHOWS TO OPEN IN LONDON THIS WEEK
Maribelle Bierens, Where's The Frame, 2023年1月10日(IT’S MY PARTY) I CAN CRY IF I WANT TO
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, 2022年12月29日GUTS 2022 CLOSING EXHIBITION IN SUPPORT OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN IRAN
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, 2022年12月15日The coolest art and art-adjacent things to buy and fawn over, Elsa Rouy, I Could Always Crack a Joke Limited Edition Pri
Spittle, Elephant Magazine, 2022年10月8日London Gallery Weekend: the emerging galleries shaking up the capital’s art scene
Ben Luke, Evening Standard, 2022年5月10日TEN’S TO SEE: ‘I COULD ALWAYS CRACK A JOKE’ BY ELSA ROUY AT GUTS GALLERY
Paul Toner, 10 Magazine , 2022年5月6日Elsa Rouy in “CACOTOPIA 06” at Annka Kultys Gallery, London
Cecilia March, Flash Art , 2022年2月12日Ten women artists and designers on their love of Louise Bourgeois
Emily Dinsdale, DAZED, 2022年2月22日Guts Director Ellie Pennick and Elsa Rouy interview with The Wick Culture
The Wick Culture, 2022年1月4日FAD Magazine feature Guts latest exhibition REALITY CHECK
Mark Westall , FAD Magazine , 2021年9月23日DAZED features latest Guts exhibition, REALITY CHECK
Emily Dinsdale, DAZED, 2021年9月21日THE FACE INTERVIEWS ELSA ROUY ON HER LATEST SOLO EXHIBITION
TJ SIDHU, THE FACE , 2021年8月24日Guts Gallery featured in The New York Times 'Gallery Weekend Brings London's Art Scene Back to Life '
Scott Reyburn, The New York Times , 2021年6月7日Coeval Magazine Interviews Elsa Rouy
Coeval Magazine, 2021年3月24日Artist Elsa Rouy #01 Art Adventures Podcast
Custorian, Soundcloud, 2021年3月5日Elsa Rouy is the British art scene’s bold new romantic
TJ Sidhu, THE FACE, 2021年2月4日Top Ten Shows from the UK and Ireland
Mimi Chu, Frieze, 2021年2月12日INTERVIEW WITH ELSA ROUY
SAINT MAISON, 2020年9月7日ON VIEW BY FLASH ART: “It’s 2020 For F*ck Sake” Guts Gallery and Soft Punk / London
Flash Art , 2020年12月11日IT’S 2020 FOR F*CK SAKE
ART PLUGGED, ART PLUGGED, 2020年9月30日The London art you can take a virtual tour of right now for free
Lucy Scovell, The Glossary, 2020年3月29日This Instagram-only exhibition is full of London’s best young artists
Eddy Frankel, Time Out London, 2020年3月24日Begin Again: The online exhibition challenging austerity and racial oppression
Scarlett Baker , Love Magazine, 2020年8月13日Scrap that, lets begin again
TJ Sidhu, The Face, 2020年8月13日Ten's to see 'When Shit Hits the Fan', The insta-exhibition by Guts Gallery
Paul Toner, 10 Magazine, 2020年4月2日Art markets find high-tech ways to reach buyers
Melanie Gerlis, Financial Times, 2020年3月27日When Shit Hits the Fan (In the Artworld)
TJ Sidhu, The Face, 2020年3月27日Guts Gallery present ‘When shit hits the fan’ a digital Instagram exhibition
Mark Westall, Fad Magazine, 2020年3月23日Begin Again is the virtual art exhibition tackling racial inequality
Gunseli Yalcinkaya, Dazed , 2020年8月14日
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