CHANTAL NEW: be honest. but don't.
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Xchanges Artists' Gallery and Studios 6E-2333 Government Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8T 4P4
Chantal New, "be honest. but don't." 2018
OPENING RECEPTION Friday 4th January, 7 - 9pm
Chantal New’s first solo exhibition, be honest. but don’t, is an exploration of femininity and vulnerability. A series of installations and drawings document the internal narrative of the female experience and the anxious thoughts that often define puberty and womanhood.
The work examines scripts of femininity and the contradicting messages of a hyper-sexualized culture. It investigates the reduction of women to the external and the unprecedented scrutiny and commodification that accompanies it.
Through delicate drawings and embroidered bed sheets, the exhibition questions male-centric definitions of femininity and is an invitation to examine the narrow-minded scripts we have been handed.
Chantal New is a mixed media artist and painter. She attained her BA in Art+Design from Trinity Western University in 2015 and currently lives and works in Victoria, BC. Her work explores themes of memory, femininity and the intersections between environmental and cultural geographies.