Bjarne Melgaard’s solo show Lion Sluts occupies the realm of the profane with explosive energy. Conceived amid an arduous public court case, his paintings unleash inner chaos in radiant streaks of color, simultaneously joyous and harrowing. Cartoonish animals outlined in thick black lines—personal totems for the artist—skitter across the canvas amid scrawled marks, suggesting both catharsis and fracture. In these unruly layers, existential dread wrestles with liberation. As the viewer navigates these frenzied compositions, the boundary between spiritual release and raw despair collapses, offering a glimpse of the tumult and redemption that echo through the entire show.