At first glance, Jeridi’s Howling Horses resembles a cartoonish fight cloud, with spray paint sweeping back and forth across the canvas like a whirlwind. At its center lies a cacophony of abstraction and frenetic movement. A hallmark of Jeridi’s work is her ability to fuse humor and tragedy, and here that duality is evident in the tension between the swirling chaos and the comical foot protruding from the vortex, as if gasping for air.
On closer inspection, two horse heads emerge, crying out toward the sky—an emotional counterpoint to the humor. There’s a subtle homage to Picasso’s Guernica, with complementary cubist forms peeking out from the background. As in many of Jeridi’s works, graffiti elements are prominent. Stabilized by oil and oil stick, the forms are punctuated by bursts of spray paint, ballpoint pen, and charcoal, which act as visual markers or rhythmic pulses, propelling the composition forward.