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Kate Mackeson

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2021

1985

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Kate Mackeson, "Memeplex", 2019, installation view, British School at Rome

Half-women, half-architecture, these sculptures appear to have been carved out of Escher-esque dreamscapes, like residual fragments of the artist’s unconscious made manifest.

What makes the Sirens seductive lies in a form of deceptive evidence: as you walk among them, the seemingly familiar and universal trope of the ‘woman in red’ becomes an object of scrutiny. What are we reading into it? What do we assume?

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Kate Mackeson, "Die Rochade (links oder rechts) II", 2021, aluminium, archival inkjet print, 71 x 30 x 70cm
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Kate Mackeson, "Die Rochade (links oder rechts) II", 2021 (detail)

The female body shares with the monster the privilege of bringing out a unique blend of fascination and horror,’ writes Rosi Braidotti in her 1994 essay ‘Mother, Monsters, Machines’. It is, she adds, a ‘fundamental structure of the mechanism of desire’.

  • Kate Mackeson, "Moods", 2019, water colour pencil on canvas. Image courtesy: Fructa, Munich.
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Kate Mackeson, "Amplifiers III", 2021 (detail)
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Kate Mackeson, "Amplifiers III", 2021 (detail)
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Kate Mackeson, "Amplifiers I", 2021
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Kate Mackeson, "Amplifiers I", 2021 (detail)
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Kate Mackeson, "Fendi HQ", 2021
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Kate Mackeson, "Fendi HQ", 2021 (detail)