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Trip Hazard
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18.04.26 - 02.05.26
I'm excited to be collaborating with Somerset based artist Zoe Snape on an installation for Hatch's next exhibition.
Hatch are an artist's collective providing alternative ways of viewing contemporary art in a rural environment:
FLUX - A collaboration with Zoe Snape
Three years into recovery from a workplace accident involving a ‘trip hazard’ that left her with post-concussion syndrome, chronic fatigue, visual stress and vestibular migraines, London-based artist Kate Mackey is grieving a loss of career and direction.
Whilst some days are consumed with darkness, pain, confusion and chronic fatigue, others are carefully planned around medical appointments and creative neurological rehabilitation. Kate is discovering new ways to create within the confines of brain injury and its consequential physical, psychological and emotional challenges. A new resourcefulness for mental wellbeing has become central to her daily life.
‘Flux’ explores feelings of rage, resolution and repair through an exploration of the traditional Japanese techniques Sashiko and Kintsugi/Kintsukuroi (golden joinery/golden repair). These techniques have links to the Japanese philosophies of mushin and wabi-sabi which focus on the value and acceptance of transience and imperfection. A partially repaired pot signifies the point of impact of the fall. A single moment in time that had life changing consequences. From the pot, fabric embellished with images derived from her medical records emerge in non-linear sometimes chaotic sequences interspersed with plain fabric representing the moments when the brain just stops.
HATCH member Zoe Snape offered to facilitate part of Kate’s creative recovery by providing her with organisational, technical and emotional support for her participation in this exhibition. A large golden crack here in the barn floor is Zoe’s contribution to the piece, referring to Doris Salcedo’s ‘Shibboleth’ from 2007 at Tate Modern that split open the floor of the Turbine Hall. It was a metaphor for the fundamental divides and weaknesses in the foundations of our cultures. Zoe challenges Shibboleth’s divisions by celebrating the scars of Kate’s healing process as the golden crack guides the viewer into the trip hazard of sudden change through the subsequent rage, around the uncertainty of resolution, along the repair of creative industriousness and towards the strength of collaborative creative recovery.
Further information about this project can be found here www.kate-mackey.com/trip-hazard
