Ride the beast 4/20
Video, 2023
About the artwork
Riding the Beast is inspired by the turbulent emotionality of Francis Bacon's "Man and Monstrous Beast." A woman, the central figure, is enmeshed with a creature she rides, where painterly strokes and primal screams collide to unleash raw desires.
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.