BURNOUT
Bianca McDonald
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Gallery 2
MFA Thesis Exhibition
BURNOUT navigates the complexities of the artist's own positionality, calling into question the forces that define rural experience - hyper-masculinity, extractive practices, land-based knowledge, human-animal relational violence, and the culturally embedded narratives of resilience, machismo, and grit. Through sculpture, installation, and performance, McDonald explores desire, grief, violence, fragility, and the shifting intersections of queerness and rurality, examining how the self is shaped by history and place. BURNOUT approaches the rural-urban continuum with nuance, unsettling familiar narratives while creating space for more complex, embodied understandings of what it means to come from, move through, and be shaped by rural spaces.
RECEPTION: Olivia Rockwell; Bianca McDonald; Jade Douglas
Join us at 5:30pm as we celebrate the opening of new exhibitions! Everyone is welcome.
