E. M. Alysse Bowd
E. M. Alysse Bowd holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the AUArts in Calgary, and an Master in Fine Arts from NSCAD University in Halifax. Her creative practice navigates object-making, drawing and live art with a thematic focus on female perfectionism, self-care and motherhood mythologies. Her work finds the beauty and complexity held in the contradictions of being human. Through her work, she often seeks a balance between wildness and domesticity, playfulness and repose, while glimpsing the absurdity within the everyday.
“The Gold Star Brigade”
A woman in all gold, her body plastered with gold star stickers drags a matching cart overflowing with a precarious pile of handmade gold star pillows. This piece has the joy of a carnival act while critiquing unsustainable achievement, work addiction, and societal reward systems while resonating on themes of time, balance, resilience and necessary rest. With seemingly great effort the woman will pull her cart through the entire festival route, a parade of one.
LOcation: Roaming throughout the entire NBYXE25 Festival
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