Catharina Bond

Badgastein - Contemporary Small Size Sculpture

2023

Kenji Lim Hot Fuzz 2023 48 x 32 x 16 cm Mixed Media (Resin, Fake fur, glass pearls, glass vase, silicone, sand) Unique The tourist takes snapshots of life. Experiences are simultane...

Kenji Lim Study for Mapping the Known World (part 2), 2019 Acrylic on unstretched linen 185 x 220 cm Unique copy Kenji Lim is mostly interested in culture, myth, and ecosystems. Lan...

Washing the Radishes - Contemporary Abstract Color Painting: Florian Nährer I can help you later washing the radishes, 2022 Acrylic on wood 50 x 40 x 2 cm signed Unique copy Floria...

Chinese Fast Food 17 (aka US Military Uniforms) - Contemporary Street Photography 2011 C-print 68 x 101 cm (ed. 2/5+1 AP) also available in 87 x 130 cm (ed. 3+1 AP) Print is unframe...

Ulrike Königshofer Shadows on Paper, Nr 1 - Contemporary Abstract Blue Monochrome Photography Signed Print, not framed 100 x 70 cm Edition 2/3+1 AP In her works, the artist Ulrike ...

Ulrike Königshofer Shadows on Paper, Nr 2 - Contemporary Abstract Blue Monochrome Photography 100 x 70 cm Edition 2/3+1 AP Signed photo print, not framed In her works, the artist...

Through a variety of structural and wall-hanged pieces, Karine Payette’s Adaptation examines how changes in the environment can begin to have an impact on our physical existence. Ele...

Through a variety of structural and wall-hanged pieces, Karine Payette’s Adaptation examines how changes in the environment can begin to have an impact on our physical existence. Ele...

Water bottle of Javier's beloved cat GÜNTER, appeared in the solo exhibition "MR.GÜNTER, THE CAT SHOW" at PARUCO MUSEUM TOKYO in June 2022. Which can also be enjoyed by displaying.

Through a variety of structural and wall-hanged pieces, Karine Payette’s Adaptation examines how changes in the environment can begin to have an impact on our physical existence. Ele...

Born in 1983, Karine Payette lives and works in Montreal. As a multidisciplinary artist, her work spans installation, photography, and video. She constructs playful, dreamlike larg...

Text by Nancy Webb It’s Saturday night and Karine Payette is in her studio. We meander into a conversation about the dog she used to have and her soft spot for German shepherds, an intensely obedient and loyal breed in a deceivingly wolf-like package. Payette’s most recent series of photographs, sculptures and video work seem to speak directly to this preoccupation with the multifaceted nature of human-animal relationships—the dialogues of control, intimacy, violence and domestication that subtly take place on an interspecies level. Her workspace is part laboratory, part prop closet—a bowl of fur sits not far from her computer. Somehow in this bright, open, chemical-clean scented room, Payette conjures wildness. We are taken to a strange place, the borderlands of interspecies mingling. At one extreme of the animal-human dynamics scale is the stalwart compliance of a professionally trained German shepherd who responds to commands with robotic precision. Here, power is comfortably held by an off-screen voice, animality pacified by a set of linguistic prompts. At the other end of the scale is a sculpture of a human figure clad in red, sharing a languorous kiss with a wolf. The story of Little Red Riding Hood is immediately called to mind, except that here our hooded protagonist seems to have bailed on grandmother’s orders, instead opting for a forest floor make-out with her canine stalker. This taboo mise-en-scène is a brazen inquiry into the boundaries we maintain with our animal counterparts. Its scale and three-dimensionality contribute to a feeling of immersion that the artist has been courting with her work for the past several years. It feels as though you’ve just walked in on something: you are implicated and your discomfort is like an invisible mist that coats these inanimate beings. Elsewhere in Payette’s suite of anthropomorphic works, the demarcation between species grows even fainter. A photographic series depicts the slow encroachment of fur, scales and feathers on human skin—a striking process of contamination facilitated by touch. The fusion of flesh, charcoal cat fur and a pale silky dress...