My Snake is Bigger than Your Snake
Freight + Volume Gallery
My Snake is Bigger Than Your Snake transforms Freight + Volume into a surreal, visceral playground that blurs the lines between the erotic, the absurd, and the politically charged. A multimedia installation featuring soft sculpture, illustration, ceramics, and video, the exhibition confronts viewers immediately — even before they step into the gallery — with a window-facing video of anthropomorphic dog-suited figures engaged in acts of birth, desire, and play.
Through her characteristically outrageous storytelling, Goyette explores themes of sexual liberation, grief, power, and revenge, building a highly personal yet mythic narrative centered around the sale of her late father’s home to a staunchly right-wing buyer. This “Snake Man” figure, rendered life-size in grotesque, politically symbolic costume, becomes the exhibition’s central antagonist, pitted against Goyette’s alter ego, Lobsta Queen.
With vibrant color, unsettling humor, and radical sensuality, Goyette’s work seduces and provokes in equal measure. Her ceramics stand out as particularly charged vessels of transformation — erotic, abject, and wildly imaginative. Alongside them, densely composed drawings and absurdist sculptural tableaux evoke a world of rebellion and reclamation, where the boundaries of gender, species, and decorum are gleefully dissolved.
My Snake is Bigger Than Your Snake is a celebration of unapologetic authorship, pushing past self-consciousness into a vivid and chaotic inner world. At once playful and political, Goyette invites viewers to step into a space where fantasy and critique collide — and nothing is sacred.
