Molecule of interest stages an imagined inner world in the gap between sensation and perception. Externalising individual structures like sensory receptors through an abstracted materiality, the work looks to how proximity is inscribed in the body, bringing about something strange, abject, and potentially hostile.
Kate Power (b. Tarntanya, Adelaide, Australia) currently lives and works in Glasgow. Power is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art MFA (2023), and the South Australian School of Art (2014). Previous exhibitions include Bedroom, installation and live performance at Vitalstatistix, Tarntanya (Adelaide) in 2021, Mucosa (with Kate Bohunnis), at Outerspace, Meanjin (Brisbane) in 2021, When you open your mouth to speak at West Space in Naarm (Melbourne) in 2018, Into My Arms at ACE Gallery, Tarntanya in 2018, Slipping down at BLINDSIDE in Naarm in 2016. Power has undertaken residencies at the British School at Rome, NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, and SIM in Reykjavik.
