CuteCore: Soft Armor explores the many ways we cope, both the visible and the hidden, the destructive and the sustaining, through the vibrant worlds that shape us when the lights are too bright, the music too loud, and the heart too full. Moving between rave and celebrity culture, religious iconography, and mechanisms of survival, this exhibition traces the quiet rituals we build to make it through daily life.

Across this series of mixed-media works, Christina Legere uses found and collected objects- remnants of routine, desire, worship, and escape, to confront the pressures that shape us. By juxtaposing cigarette boxes with images of Britney Spears, the Virgin Mary, rave ephemera, and other culturally charged symbols, Legere creates a visual dialogue between personal history and collective fixation. 

In this world, cuteness becomes a strategy: softness as armor, pleasure as prayer, and glitter as a way to keep the darkness from swallowing the room. CuteCore refuses to separate joy from struggle, acknowledging that nightlife can be both sanctuary and battleground, that pop culture can both soothe and wound, and that coping often emerges from the same channels that hide our vulnerabilities. The exhibition sits in the tension between harm and relief, shame and ritual, comfort and compulsion; inviting viewers to consider their own hidden dependencies, the belief systems they lean on, and the fantasies that get them through.