WHEN: 

From 27 January to 20 April 2024.

WHERE: 

Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Alberta (CANADA).

Curated by ADAM WHITFORD, Associate Curator & Exhibitions Manager

Bridget Moser’s new solo exhibition A Malevolently Bad Map navigates the rocky terrain of self-knowledge. Through her unique combination of prop comedy, performance art, video, and sculptural installation, Moser’s humour and absurdity revel in the incongruous emotions of the Amazon age. In A Malevolently Bad Map, Moser takes a more personal tone, meandering through territories of identity formation, overcoming personal struggle, and the consumerization of self-expression.

For Moser, selfhood is not fixed or singular. It is a confusing mess of distractions, moments of acceptance, external pressures, and misdirected internal desires. Moser’s new video, also titled A Malevolently Bad Map is structured through a conversation between a person (played by Moser), a flesh-coloured, beaded towel of a Greek volute krater, and a pair of sentient pants. The person expresses familiar feelings of unfulfillment and that despite working out, keeping hydrated, staying on top of interior design trends, and living in a time and place of privilege, they still feel directionless.