Katrina Stamatopoulos is an artist based in London.
Her focus is on exploring the entanglement of human and nonhuman life through the lenses of consumption, labour, and image-making. She studies how cycles of nourishment, decay, and reproduction manifest both in the body and in the photographic medium itself.
Katrina is fixated on feeding, and makes connections between food and images; their digestion and representation, source and distribution, and entwining as daily process. Working cross-disciplinarily, she often works in collaboration with other researchers and professionals in fields of genetics, design, food production and agriculture.
Katrina’s research questions how the representation of photography can shifts with material transformation. Playing with photographic surface as a site of transition, she examines what it means for an images to exist as matter and as document.
Katrina’s work manifests through her making process, whether it’s utilising found or expired paper stocks, experimenting in the darkroom, facilitating chemigrams, or creating pinhole cameras (and placing them covertly in public). Found material is often her starting point, and can range from objects, X-rays, 16mm film, specimens, food and packaging, to discarded photographic materials and negatives found at commercial photographic labs in London.
Along with her practice-based research, Katrina is a Project Manager of the London
Alternative Photography Collective, and Co-Founder of the Project space Equivalentbehaviour in North London with Storquestudios.
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katrinastamo@gmail.com
+44 (0)7506 947 339
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