"This Delicate Monster" is a multi-media pop fable inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil , a book of poems as succulent and darkly suave as 19th-century Paris and Baudelaire himself. Handelman transposes the Flowers of Evil into a pop landscape, creating a haunting and hallucinatory fragmented narrative that can best be described as a cross between a horror film soundtrack and a fashion shoot gone terribly wrong. Collaborating with couture fetish designer Garo Sparo, Italian noise band Larsen, and a cast of performers, Handelman seduces the viewer into a 3-screen video narrative constructed of gestures and sounds that breathe life into Baudelaire’s text such as, “No abyss compares with your bed”, “condemned to an eternal laugh because I know not how to smile”, “to swallow up existence with a yawn”. The exhibit becomes a sympathetic symphony of gasps, shrieks and repetitive actions projected onto screens where passion, obsession, fashion and ugliness collide.