Katrina Stamatopoulos
Real/ Unreal
Sight is a sense that estimates our body form as an organic entity, yet we are unable to see our interior change in relation to our exterior. Assuming that it is different all the time, our vision interacts with our interior awareness and self-image, being perceptibly ungraspable and in movement all the time. Working with both macro and camera-less photography, I come close to textures and fluids that appear of the body, confused in its being as something natural or unnatural, staged or chanced, surreal and scientific. Embracing the confusion of photographically seeing, I work with organic and artificial elements, discarded foods and things we ingest, liquefying plastic with albumen. Questioning what’s real and delusional, being subjective and being subject to, I am interested in what is bodily, of the body, or bodily in feeling or gesture.
The mysticism and plasticity of photography comes parallel with the ungraspable interiority of the body. How we see is translated through our perceptual understanding and validation of sight, for which we rely on photography to make record of something outside of what our body cannot provide, a still image. Utilising the physicality of photographic behaviour, this project is based around using available subjects rather then going out and seeking photographs.