Lean Into Joy

Kavel Rafferty's latest work investigates the culture of toxic positivity, oppressive wellness, motivational memes and affirmation overload. Kavel questions the validity and usefulness of these banal phrases and feel good messages, by redacting found vintage posters with gloss paints. Kavel takes a wry look at this moral messaging and pseudoscientific babble by reverse highlighting the lettering obliterating the imagery. Rafferty is not unaware of her own gullibility and attraction to quick fix cod psychology, with these works she gently laughs at her own self help addiction...