Windows
Explore mirror-worlds and hidden realms.
Windows explores the nature of vision and how the ways that we see the world affects our experience of time and place.
This new media installation is centred around two video works that tell stories about the ways that we encounter and understand the world through the collection of information and the construction of knowledge.
Paine looks to consider the apparatus of the eye and the surface of the mirror as metaphoric considerations of how vision acts as an interface between our consciousness and the world around us.
Room Sheet | Essay by Tara Heffernan
From the Artist:
“ This exhibition provides me with the opportunity to present video work I made as part of my recent Masters’ research alongside new work I made in Venice as part of the Cranbourne Travelling Scholarship.” – Katie Paine
Katie Paine - Artist
Katie Paine is a Naarm-based artist and writer. Her practice spans installation, video, narrative fiction, drawing and photography. She interested in the fallacies of institutionalised knowledge and the spectral and poetic spaces that open up during instances of miscommunication, failure and misunderstanding.
Recent work has explored such ideas across the fields of semiotics, hauntology, archival politics, magical realism and science fiction. She recently completed her MFA at the University of Melbourne, for which she was awarded a Graduate Research Scholarship, the Peter Redlich Memorial Art Prize and a Cranbourne Scholarship.
Paine has exhibited at Composite Moving Image, Lon Gallery, F.S. Meyer Gallery, CAVES, TCB, ACMI, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Kings ARI, La Trobe Art Institute, Blindside, George Paton Gallery, VOID Gallery, Irene Rose, SEVENTH Gallery and Bus Projects. She writes for publications such as Performance Review, Vault Magazine, Art + Australia, un Magazine, Running Dog, Runway Journal and Art Almanac alongside a variety of art galleries.
Acknowledgements
Aspects of this work were funded by a University of Melbourne Graduate Faculty Research Grant, 2022.
Documentation images courtesy of Louis Lim