Katie Aliprando

The Whom Is Whom I Suppose I Know

Nov 4 - Dec 15, 2024

exhibition checklist

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I work from a place of compiling notes, archiving images and ‘auditioning’ objects combining a personal motivation to map out an implied space or imagined scenario. Like a transatlantic Hollywood accent, faint impressions are left and placed not entirely spelled out leaving a large space between the implied action and their interpretation(s).

The Whom Is Whom I Suppose I Know in part reveals an evolution of collage construction. These works originally inspired by hotel stationery drawings from the likes of Martin Kippenberger and Yves Klein, function as a blueprint or mental mapping that begin with the intentions of having my own customized stationery; a place to jot down notes and scout images from my archive of found images and camera phone photos taken from various films, music videos, television and real life. These collected images develop ‘locations’ or ‘rooms’ leaving a new relationship, schematic stage or blank space open for text, fallen paper, marks or envelopes skinned to reveal their privacy patterns. The stationery can be printed out, sometimes scanned, blown up and typically archived again before being framed, for example in Impossible Window and Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. Note taking transforms into visual moves where words and objects interplay and possibly mean one of the same thing(s) or not.

Memory Card: Bee On Flower is a print of a scanned object, a card from a children’s Memory card matching game. The image on the card is partially erased and sublimated using the privacy pattern from the back of the object’s printing process. The imagined scenario being that the game continues, however the new action may or may not be to find two of a kind

I also write simultaneously in a composition notebook while scouting images, ultimately preparing for the unfolding of a laid out network of objects or surviving traces that best translates their own or my own imagined fragmented actions. These nouns transform into verbs or imagined actions that can be as simple as thinking; he is lifting or they are hiding, or as complex as, ‘he builds a text trellis because he is mute’ and ‘she peeks through because she sees only in lines and dots.’ There tends to be an ongoing theme of miscommunication or shortcomings assigned to a team of human traits and personas all layered within a playground of preverbal development.

- Katie Aliprando