Katrine Hoff

“The Hungry Eye (a deconstruction)”

“The Hungry Eye (a deconstruction)” is a body of work centered around the idea of ‘The Hungry Eye’ - a restless eye that is constantly hungry for pixels. The work questions the ways in which we experience and engage with the constant flow of images existing within today’s society. I use imagery sourced from both personal and found archives to zoom in and abstract in order to slow down and look closer. The images depict both the human and the non-human; the bodily and the outer space. All of which constantly absorbs and transforms. The work consists of digital prints on textile mixed with other materials and media, such as the sound piece; “Letting the Pixels Wash Over You (2 min. recording of waves hitting the shore stretched to 1 hour)”. Through my experimentation with textiles I have engaged with concepts of deconstruction, repair and what I have come to describe as physical glitching. With this body of work I aim to turn the digital and non-physical into something physical and tangible.

“The oppositions challenged by deconstruction, which have been inherent in Western philosophy since the time of the ancient Greeks, are characteristically “binary” and “hierarchical,” involving a pair of terms in which one member of the pair is assumed to be primary or fundamental, the other secondary or derivative. Examples include nature and culture, speech and writing, mind and body, presence and absence, inside and outside…. to “deconstruct” an opposition is to explore the tensions and contradictions between the hierarchical ordering assumed ”. - (https://www.britannica.com/topic/deconstruction).

“When I was growing up, all the woman in my house were using needles. I always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair the damage”. - Louise Bourgeois.

“A glitch is an error, a mistake, a failure to function. Within technoculture, a glitch is a part of machinic anxiety, an indicator of something having gone wrong. This build-in technological anxiety of something gone wrong spills over naturally when we encounter glitches in AFK (away from the keyboard) scenarios”. - Legacy Russell, ‘Glitch Feminism, A Manifesto'.