Kate McElroy (b. 1990) is a visual artist that works between Cork and Limerick, Ireland.

“I highlight a moment of precarity, drawing attention to an environment in flux, and a space between construction and destruction.

Coalescing a sense of space and time, my work takes the form of multimedia installations interplaying elements of photography, moving image, sound, spoken word and found material. Traces of places,

remnants

of
spaces___

Capturing an environment that is in transit and transformation is contrasted by a sense of presence and slow observation. I am interested in the intermingling invisible forces that affects our environments and actions.

I capture elements on the edge of abstraction, stretching the usual register of perception. I present an ambiguity, so the viewer has space to recreate and move beyond the visible. The work often implements an optical oscillation, through this it subtly suggests a malleable, unfixed reality.

My work captures a place in process highlighting a betweenness, where definitive boundaries dissolve . . .

. . ,

Through correlating artistic processes and re-presenting materials often discarded and overlooked, I prise open a gap.

An opening, to consider an alternative___”

PADA is an Art Residency & Gallery based in a post-industrial site near Lisbon, Portugal.

Video by Apertura Studios.

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