Cigarette
Video, 2023
About the artwork
A sequence of portraits, each with cigarettes oddly positioned – on a cheek, beside a lip – injecting an offbeat charm into the act of smoking. This deliberate disarray blurs the line between vice and visual art.
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Audio explanation
Listen to Alsoguppyme discuss this work.
Alsoguppyme makes surreal images out of the ordinary, twisting them until they feel both funny and unsettling. Midlife shifts leak into the work — the cracks, the restlessness, the changes you don’t quite have words for. She follows those glitches as they turn into strange reflections of daily life.