selected pinhole exposures from December - February, 2020
from left to right
31-12-19 Tesco, Seven Sisters, 2 nights
03-01-20 Sainsbury’s, Stamford Hill, 2 nights
06-01-20 Lidl, Tottenham, overnight
10-02-20 TkMaxx, Tottenham, overnight
15-02-20 M&S, Dalston, 6 hours
15-02-20 Sainsbury’s, Dalston, 6 hours
selected pinhole exposures from February - March, 2020
from left to right
09-02-20 Morrisons, Stamford Hill, overnight
22-02-20 Waitrose, Clerkernwell, 6 hours
08-03-20 Asda, Stamford Hill, 6 hours
07-03-20 Sainsbury’s, New Cross Gate, 7 hours
12-03-20 Asda, Bruce Grove, overnight
19-03-20 Morrisons, Stamford Hill, 6 hours
selected pinhole exposures March 2020
from left to right
15-03-20 Sainsbury’s, Farringdon, 5 hours
17-03-20 Iceland, New Cross Gate, 7 hours
16-03-20 Sainsbury’s, Chancery Lane, 5 hours
18-03-20 Tesco, Seven Sisters, overnight
20-03-20 Tesco, Enfield, 4 hours
20-03-20 Tesco, Enfield, 4 hours
Undercover
Using shoeboxes rescued from trash or appropriated secondhand, pinhole cameras
were made over a 6-month period and placed underneath parked cars
temporarily to expose their unseen body parts. Various photographic paper, film
types and exposure times were experimented with to trace each boxes encounter,
vulnerably scarring and recording the photographic material.
While some of the photographs were taken locally and with neighbours’ permission,
diary entries reveal the risks taken in sneaking these re-fashioned cameras – oblivious
and suspicious to the potential car owner– underneath vehicles that are the private
belongings of others, and with the intensity with what could happen if caught.
Appearing medical in its gaze and forensic in its surveillance, Undercover
subverts several binaries at once. Keeping suspended the gap between human and
machine, private and public, street and home, hidden and seen; identification with
neither and both of these supposed binaries occur in this urban underworld.
written by artist and writer Benjamin Carey, 2018
Diary samples:
https://files.cargocollective.com/321198/Diary-samples.pdf
Undercover book:
https://katrinastamatopoulos.net/Books
Installation view, Tottenham, London, 2018
unique c-type C41 & black and white photographs, ground sealant
Trapped in a valve, 2018
exhaust pipe, speaker,mini ipod
Selected chemigrams and photographs from Honest Orifice, 2018
Chemigrams have been made with food scraps or bits gleaned from street markets.
Photographed elements include albumen, dead fish, onions
Honest Orifice
Embracing the confusion of photographically seeing, Honest orifice involves organic and
artificial elements, discarded foods and things we ingest, liquefying plastic with albumen.
Weaning around notions of what is real and delusional, being subjective and subject to,
this project explores a creature of the body, through the body, and what may be bodily in
feeling and gesture.
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Chemigrams have been made with food scraps or bits gleaned from street markets.
Photographed elements include albumen, dead fish, onions
Honest Orifice
Embracing the confusion of photographically seeing, Honest orifice involves organic and
artificial elements, discarded foods and things we ingest, liquefying plastic with albumen.
Weaning around notions of what is real and delusional, being subjective and subject to,
this project explores a creature of the body, through the body, and what may be bodily in
feeling and gesture.
Duct, 2018
copper pipe, expanding glue, spray paint, wood, digital projector, cable, found object
digital video, 10 mins 09 secs, looped
Projection lamp made in collaboration with KavcuK, London 2018
Unattainable woman, 2015
77cm x 107cm
c-type print
From the Fountain of Neptune, Piazza Navona, 2015
Selected portraits:
Mermaid, 2014
hooker girl, 2014
two faced, 2015
too glazed to remember, 2014
Artifice mirrors artifice, 2015
Mirror stage, 2014
Floating in my penumbra, 2014
All portraits are made with mermaid objects purchased on Ebay
Mermaid, 2014
hooker girl, 2014
two faced, 2015
too glazed to remember, 2014
Artifice mirrors artifice, 2015
Mirror stage, 2014
Floating in my penumbra, 2014
All portraits are made with mermaid objects purchased on Ebay
March of the maids, 2015
digital video with sound, 3:01 minutes
document of the annual event March of the Mermaids,
Brighton, UK
“Among crustaceans, the crab is known as the “sleeper”, the image of eternal sleep, is the most
mysterious, the most deceitful, the shiftiest. It hides under rocks and its mobile eyes watch for
prey with a cruel malice. It walks sideways. It combines every fault. There are men who resemble it.”
- From Encyclopedia Acephalica, George Bataille
Dorsals, 2016
scanography & digital collage printed as digital c-types
Embracing the imaginary, organic and synthetic nature of hypothesis, Dorsals marvel on the potentiality of
species in both scientific and fictional realms. Melted in to each specimen are elements of found objects:
photographs, x-rays, dead insects and fish, aquarium ornaments, coral and other media.
A big thank you to the following participants for donating their X-rays:
Ari Stamatopoulos, fractured wrist x-ray
Georgia Stamatopoulos, foetal scan at 9.3cm
Stuart Trevor, mandible mouth x-ray, lung x-ray
Carl Simpson, anxle x-ray
Alexandra Spence, discolated shoulder x-ray
Colin Sweetman, dislocated shoulder x-ray