Angela Lizon stages narratives using digital collage, photographs, oversized flowers, kitsch objects, fairies and animated vegetables. Mostly growing the flowers she paints, Lizon uses the bouquet as a stage or garden for allegorical narratives to tell a story and hopefully capture something of the enchantment in the undergrowth.
“Horseman” is a response to the famous photo of Putin riding topless on a horse and the idea of toxic masculinity that it embodies. The image forms a part of a large still-life referencing the Apocalypse, a cross between 17th century Dutch floral art, Bosch and Disney.