Tend L'autre Joue Emanuel Macron! 2021

Cricorps’s, Tend L'autre Joue Emanuel Macron!, is a riot of figuration, vibrant color, and comic strip elements. I imagine Cricorps, born in 1953, leaning over this work, pushing paint around with gusto. The heavy outlines and bold hues give the artwork a kind of pop-art sensibility, but something else is going on here too. The surface seems to flatten as figures are jammed into the frame without any sense of conventional perspective. It's as if the artist decided to throw everything in – political comment, religious imagery, graphic style – without worrying too much about how it all fits. Take that speech bubble. It's clunky, but it's effective, as if the artist is eager to communicate a direct message, layering meaning and intention. This might be a conversation between folk art and the avant-garde, between the personal and the political, and isn't that what art is all about, anyway?