Libby Bove

The Museum of Roadside Magic (2024)

Libby Bove's multidisciplinary work is centred on repositioning folk customs and magical practices at the forefront of daily life. Based in South West England, she draws on traditional craft processes and archival methodologies to weave plausibility into constructed myths. Bove transposes ancient customs, traditions and rituals into incongruous contemporary settings, bringing non-existent pasts into contact with speculative future landscapes. In The Museum of Roadside Magic, a travelling archive set across two vehicles, she presents artifacts and displays of imagined roadlore practices, using speculative folk-fiction to explore magical practice, plant knowledge and ritual as integral to vehicular maintenance and everyday life.

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