“Meat Engine” by Beedallo
Positive Space Tulsa
Through September 27
Body horror, rampant dehumanization, dysphoria, fin-tech in the water supply, cartoonishly and dangerously distorted reality—you know, just things I’m thinking about, given that it’s a day in 2025 that ends in “Y.” Meat Engine, a small but mighty show at Positive Space, gave me a welcome place to process complicated feelings about how it feels to be a human right now.
To say something’s complicated, even dark, isn’t to say it can’t be fun. The artist Beedallo—originally from Los Chavez, New Mexico, and now based in Albuquerque—documents some hard-to-define discomforts here, in nine pieces (all made this year) that have the rare quality of being genuinely unexpected. Their first show in Oklahoma, on view through Saturday, is a trippy mix that made me shudder, laugh, do several double-takes, and break down a few more binaries in my own thinking.