VISUAL ART Dētrīmentum by Katie Whyte 12/11 - 22/12 FREE

DĒTRĪMENTUM BY KATIE WHYTE

12th November - 22nd December McKenna Gallery Free Admission

VISUAL ARTS

Dētrīmentum is a video and photographic installation by Kildare artist Katie Whyte. A Latin word meaning harm, loss, or damage, Dētrīmentum is an exploration of the journey of an object from an intact historical/archival piece, to an object that has fallen into disrepair and out of the collective memory.

This installation focuses on presenting hidden and lost historical narratives in photographic form. Using new media glitching techniques, the detached narrative histories of these objects are interlaced with the code of their images, producing innovative media lens-based work. Katie Whyte is a Kildare based artist who graduated from the National College of Art and Design Dublin, completing a BFA in Fine Art Media in 2020. She is a member of Lucida Collective, an artist collective made up of other lens-based media emerging artists.

Her work has been supported by The Arts Council of Ireland and she is the recipient of the 2021 ‘Emerging Visual Artist Bursary Award’ supported by Kildare County Council and Riverbank Arts Centre.