Katharine Fry (British, b. Belgium 1981) works in video installation with a background in performance. Marrying a mid-century aesthetic with a gothic strategy, Fry’s primary character is a female figure contained in an interior space. A fantasy automaton, her vitality is registered through blinks and breaths as she carries out arbitrary and ultimately purposeless tasks. Fry’s work is permeated with ambivalence. Her character appears physically caught between enclosure and protection and psychically lingers between inertia and withdrawal. Through a feminist process, Fry turns her interest to enmeshment and individuation, questions of agency and interiority, strategies of in/action and pathologies of development.

I am a multidisciplinary artist, working between town and country, studio and streetside. Over the last years I have predominantly produced print objects and print, performance, public interventions, site specific work and video. The complex relationships between people and place are my main source of inspiration, the production of landscape between mythology and terroir is at the core of my interests. My Videotopia stagings manipulate familiar narratives of the land and well-known scenarios of public space, both urban and rural. I work from historical sources, art and site observation, juxtaposing profanity with the ideal, behaviours and cultures with place, conceptions of the urban and rural.