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Artist: Emily Katrencik   
Exhibition: Personal Space
Date: June 16 2004 - July 31 2004
Curator: Lea Rekow
Bio:
Katrencik's work takes on the main space of social and built architecture, asking the question, can we engage architecture to counter its consumption of us? and addresses the interstitial systems of both the social and built space-their potentials and failures as psychological and livable space and the individual's ability or disability to act because of the codes that form these spaces. Recently her work incorporates real life into projects by creating a discourse between the two. Finding the Socialism within the Capitalism is a utopian attempt to create a new system for living by the navigation and unpacking of the social housing system in the United States. She holds a Bachelors degree in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Masters of Science in Visual Studies from M.I.T.in 2001. I slip between boundaries. My work rides a boundary between art and life. I place myself on this porous edge, as I place myself into the interstices of buildings and place buildings into my own body. Sometimes the art mimics life and other times the life ends up becoming what was already explored through artistic practice. Both of these are risks, one can forget the porous boundary that they created between the self and the art and fall into moments of a psychosis, loosing objectivity with this loss of figure and ground, but then gaining insight in the process of regaining the state of subjectivity.

 

 

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