Artist Talks
Date: Saturday 14 May, 2pm
Cost: FREE!
Pulp Fiction presents a microcosmic world of plant-based materials shaped into mobiles, weavings, small objects and web structures, with each thing connected to another. Utilising the site itself as an integral component of the work, Pulp Fiction explores the meaning of 'ephemerality' in contemporary practice. The exhibition aims to describe the world we live in: eating and being eaten, the food chain, the life cycle.
Kato's art always emerges from her everyday life, and this work builds on her previous explorations of mundane materials like grass, cotton, string and compost; here she recycles the apparently worthless skin, seeds and pulp of fruit and vegetable into unique, humorous or precious art objects.
Born in Japan, Kato completed a Fine Art degree at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a Master of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999. Kato has been a recipient of a French government scholarship at the Paris Cite des Arts, and was a former studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces.
A founding member of The Slow Art Collective, Kato's practice encompasses many genres from process-based installation, to drawing and picture book making.
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Photography: Lily Feng
