KATE MACKESON
Kate Mackeson's practice focuses on the body and its position within socio-economic and historical frameworks which she channels through sculpture, painting, drawing, video and textile works. Mackeson often uses found imagery and archetypal representations from film, literature, pop culture and politics in order to re-examine and expand their genealogies and to understand how feelings are structured, sublimated and consumed within them. In recent exhibitions these narratives have centred on the symbolism and enduring image of the woman wearing red, the "weaponization" of desire in late capitalism, the commodification of feelings of (her own) adolescence and the representation of affect in medieval wood carvings. Found imagery and objects that reference the world of leisure, hygiene and enhancement are also recurring themes in her installations.
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KATE MACKESON
Kate Mackeson's practice focuses on the body and its position within socio-economic and historical frameworks which she channels through sculpture, painting, drawing, video and textile works. Mackeson often uses found imagery and archetypal representations from film, literature, pop culture and politics in order to re-examine and expand their genealogies and to understand how feelings are structured, sublimated and consumed within them. In recent exhibitions these narratives have centred on the symbolism and enduring image of the woman wearing red, the "weaponization" of desire in late capitalism, the commodification of feelings of (her own) adolescence and the representation of affect in medieval wood carvings. Found imagery and objects that reference the world of leisure, hygiene and enhancement are also recurring themes in her installations.
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