By Kat Grabowski
Analogue photograph
16″ x 20″, framed
$250

Artist Statement:
Outside The Room was created in collaboration with the Uninvited project, a Feminist, written response to Plato’s Symposium (https://www.uninvitedproject.com/). A common motif in my work is the relationship between the female body and the natural world. The women being uninvited from the discussions of Plato’s Symposium suggests that they were banished to the space outside the room, which I interpreted to be nature. This sets the context for my work. While reading the text, I imagined women wandering and gathering in nature, having their discussions amongst the trees and in fields. Connecting, discussing, creating, and existing together in nature.

Artist Bio:
Kat Grabowski’s photo-based practice is informed by her personal experience with organized religion and conditioned ideologies growing up in Abbotsford, BC. She aims to explore her position as a female photographer who contributes to the consumption of women’s images while also undermining and complicating standardized and stereotypical versions of the female narrative. Kat earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2020) and her BA in visual arts and design from Trinity Western University (2012).

Follow Kat Online:
Instagram: @katgrabowski
Website: katgrabowski.com