CLAIRE BRIDGE

VCA GRAD SHOW, Dec 9-15
Bldg 879, Ground floor

rupture: repattern: repair

My work fuses the mythic and grotesque.

I engage with practices of rupture, repatterning and repair to address my concern for voice, power, and violence. Drawing on ancestral transmissions and a synthesis of my Indian Assamese and Anglo-European heritage, I re-signify and empower the wounded and monstrous feminine through works framed by the mythologies of Medusa in relationship to Lilith, Shakti and Kali.

Resisting western tendencies to deny violence and erase scars, my work witnesses the wounded psyche and soma through visible ruptures and tactile fragmentations. Embedded within processes, objects, and materials, are gestures of repair of personal and collective wounds, opening ruptures of transformational potential and plasticity. In response to systemic male violence against women, I see repair as a vital practice of cultural resistance, ongoing-ness and future-making.

View Grad Show online: VCA ART 2021

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