If it Makes you Happy (It Can't Be That Bad)
Good Sport Gallery, London, ON. July 23rd to August 20th, 2016.
If It Makes You Happy is Maritime-born, Montreal-based artist Elise Boudreau Graham’s first solo show. If It Makes You Happy explores the tensions of increasingly individualized brands of feminism and queries the ways in which the personal has become political. Aesthetically gesturing to the past, Boudreau Graham uses nostalgia to create a comfortable yet critical space which welcomes viewers to take a moment to relax and reflect on contemporary conditions of neoliberalism, internet activism, emotional labour, and commodified self-care.
Bad Sport a collection of feminist writing and artworks was released in conjunction with this exhibition and is accessible here.
