Elsa Rouy: What We Hide Beneath the Skin

Elsa Rouy: What We Hide Beneath the Skin

We all wear masks — one for the boss, one for the lover, another for the mirror. Which one tells the truth? Maybe none. Maybe survival means not asking. But the body remembers. That itch under the skin, that line you wish you never said, that night you wished to forget — it lingers. The truth always does, no matter how well we hide it. For the British artist Elsa Rouy, skin is not merely a biological boundary — it’s a threshold. A fragile border…