Description: Catherine Street is an artist whose work consists of layers of experience. In installations her body is often present amongst projections and audio works, drawings and texts, creating an atmosphere that may be sensual, comical or disturbing. Staccato configurations of sound and light create an intensely sensory experience, whilst at the same time the viewer…
Catherine Street is an artist whose work consists of layers of experience. In installations her body is often present amongst projections and audio works, drawings and texts, creating an atmosphere that may be sensual, comical or disturbing. Staccato configurations of sound and light create an intensely sensory experience, whilst at the same time the viewer is invited to contemplate the ambiguously layered content of text and speech works. Meditative, precisely spoken audio recordings include vivid evocatio
Street pays particular attention to themes of transformation and to the relationship between matter, thought, emotion and sensation. She focuses on bodily experience – the experience of interaction with, on the one hand physical objects and substances, and on the other hand meaning: whether social, political, sexual, spiritual.
Street has recently shown work in the exhibition Artichoke at Cindy Rucker Gallery in New York and in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’ s Now 3 exhibition. Other projects include the solo exhibition Muscle Theory at Glasgow’s Reid Gallery , which incorporated video and sound installation, drawing and live performance. Street has worked with some of Scotland’s major institutions such as CCA Glasgow , GoMA , DCA , The National Galleries of Scotland , and undertaken a number of residencies for examp