EXHALE
EXHALE - SAATCHI GALLERY
In Exhale, Kat Kristof explores the boundaries of inner and outer space through richly layered, psychologically charged works. Trained in architecture and painting, Kristof constructs immersive compositions that navigate identity, memory, and perception.
Her figures—neither strictly figurative nor fully abstract—exist in architectonic dreamscapes that oscillate between fullness and emptiness, surface and depth.
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ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIND
"As we spend much of our lives online and find ourselves ensnared in an increasingly dystopian reality, glitches and fractures seem all the more apt in rendering the contemporary mind.
Kat Kristof attends to this disjointed—and even duplicitous—feeling in her vivid portraiture. Visible brushstrokes invoke gestures past and the memories that scaffold our lives, while layered patches build upon one another, forming complex structures within each piece."
"While each portrait contains some level of psychological distortion, Kristof expands and contracts their surreal qualities. "
"For Kristof, there’s endless space for our minds to break into new territories, although like the walls that protect our homes, there are barriers we have to cross to step outside ourselves. “What we long for remains elusive, not because it doesn’t exist, but because we carry our mindset with us,” she adds."
COLOSSAL MAGAZINE Grace Ebert
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