Steinbär Crafts
intuitive, painter + fine toy maker
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Soft Core
Type: North Node Collective group show
Genre: Needle felted sculpture series
Location: Community Gallery, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YT
Year: January, 2022
Softcore is the first exhibition by Whitehorse-based North Node Collective featuring Courtney Holmes, Rebecca Manias, Katie Newman and Heather Von Steinhagen. Through the medium of soft sculpture, humour and discomfort are employed as a challenge to tired yet stubborn body standards and harmful social constructs.
Connecting the ways we feel in our bodies - silly, anxious, divine - to the tactile nature of textiles creates a soft space for self-love and acceptance. Despite a lighthearted approach, we remain engaged in the ways in which our bodies have been oppressed, celebrated, critiqued and policed. We exist outside of the ways our bodies are objectified and celebrate the journey to find softness within.