VCA ART 2022

Katie Paine

Master of Fine Art

The fleshy chamber of the retina is scanned for the flicker of a ghostly ectoplasm, researchers are troubled by the findings of their study. A hermetic narrator resides in a place where time stands still, recounting their attempts to assuage their loneliness with imagined correspondences.


This project constructs speculative narratives which speak of failed encounters, telling stories of absences, of what cannot be seen in interstitial spaces. As a society, we use systems of knowledge to render the pandemonium of existence into concrete fact but within these systems there are fissures. Something slips through the cracks: ideas, memories and experiences that cannot be contained drift out in the world to create new narratives.

Website

www.katielouisepaine.com

Social

Instagram: @dreamsofspeaking

Enquiries

katielouisepaine@gmail.com

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A large beige metal trolley holds a LCD monitor screen playing a video depicting the facade of a hospital. Surrounding the trolley are hanging blue disposable hospital curtains and a round mint green ply wood stool.
Katie Paine, A Lonely Circumnavigation, single-channel video, enamel, fabricated trolley, yellow cord, 12.00 mins, 2022. Fabrication by Ellen Sayers. Documentation by Jon Butt.
A macro view of an eye, a strip of bright white light intersects the iris, obscuring our view of the pupil.
Katie Paine, On the Myopic Gaze of a Surrogate Eye, film still, 2022.
A large beige TV stand holds a LCD monitor screen playing a video depicting a close-up view of an eye. Surrounding the stand are hanging blue disposable hospital curtains.
Katie Paine, On the Myopic Gaze of a Surrogate Eye, single-channel video, enamel, monitor stand, red cord, 5.50 mins, dimensions variable, 2021. Soundtrack with Mitchell Mack. Documentation by Jon Butt.
A dimly lit view through a window with venetian blinds. Orange streelight seeps into the room. A yellow subtitle reads "like the past has calcified and sits beside me"
Katie Paine, A Lonely Circumnavigation, film still, 2022.
Two engineers sit in a submarine looking at a sonar interface, the neon sonar markers on the screen are overlaid on their faces like a reflection.
Katie Paine, On the Myopic Gaze of a Surrogate Eye, film Still, 2022.
A TV monitor lies flat on the ground, on the screen is a scene of a hospital facade at night lit by green streetlights. The TV is overlaid with a round spotlight. Next to the TV hangs a row of disposable hospital curtains. The edge of the curtains bisects the spotlight creating a zigzag shadow.
Katie Paine, A Lonely Circumnavigation (install view), monitor, spotlight, Haines disposable hospital curtain, 2022. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
A small waist height table with a bright green surface is inlaid with a computerised chess-set. Behind this stands a whiteboard with a diagrammatic drawing on it.
Katie Paine, Phantom Interlocutors, artists' table, KD hardwood, enamel, computerised chess-set, whiteboard, whiteboard marker, 2022. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky
In a room with a wooden floor hang rows of blue disposable hospital curtains. On the ground lie several LED lights. Between the curtains sits a mint green plywood stool.
Katie Paine, Mutable Configurations, Haines disposable hospital curtains, LED lights, architectural plywood stool, 2022.

Master of Fine Art

Damien Melchiori
Alice Edy
Sophie Morrow
Katie Paine
Kezia Yap

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