ARTIST STATEMENT
The body and mind are intertwined. I use my work to generate healing from the inside out. By creating abstract biomorphic sculptures, I create a window to our internal bodily functions so we may deeper know their power.
Wy work focuses on themes of expanding, releasing, and regeneration.
I specifically use repurposed textile materials to tell the story of our healing body. Our body’s too are made of fibers. Intricately woven in relationship with each other so they can send messages and preform in symphony.
By discovering contemporary ways to use familiar materials, I imagine new neural pathways sprouting in my own brain.
By creating abstract sculptures I work to reflect the wonder of women. I believe when we recognize ourselves in the surreal we soften. I work to create new associations of reverence with the feminine body. To dissolve shame tied to our identities and embrace ourselves as divine in nature, so we may hold ourselves and one another in reverence.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rose Malenfant is a mixed media interdisciplinary artist from New York based in Brooklyn. Her work focuses on taking a contemporary feminist approach to fiber, textiles, and repurposed objects to create surreal biomorphic sculptures. She uses exploratory techniques and movement to fabricate forms and scenes that evoke women’s biology and encourage women to deeper hold in reverence their bodies’ vast capabilities. Rose was a recipient of Beam Center’s Artist in Residency on Governors Island for summer 2022. Her work has been published in New Visionary Magazine, and exhibited in galleries in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. Her recent performance “Returning Menstruation” was activated on South Beach Miami for Miami Art Week 2022. Her mixed media sculpture “Ovulation” will be featured in Patricia Suzanne Miranda’s juried exhibition “Tenuous Threads” at Atlantic Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan.
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