In her gestural style, Tala Madani depicts male figures often acting out ridiculous scenarios––disemboweling themselves, vomiting on one another—which results from the artist’s interest in exploring the ridiculous, profane, and humorous through her figures. In Man Choking His Shadow, we see exactly that, a man trying to strangle his own shadow, presumably due to an emotion we can’t identify. Whether because of shame, fear, or something else, the man is attacking a part of himself.