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Soft and Deviant

Kate Lafferty

They/she

My practice is concerned with thinking through queer feminist theory to deconstruct paradigms and relationships of objects, bodies, systems and spaces. In this series ‘Soft and Deviant’, a queer space is proposed through images that interpret understanding and identity as elements in constant flux.
In the project, I use hyper-saturated colour and a sensitivity to materiality and composition to create visually stimulating images that confront intersectional and inequitable structures. In these images I stage a space where perspective is tested through the photographic lens and narrative is performed through a queer understanding of what is present and what is missing.
To think in a material way, forces us to disrupt how we see, and how we associate. With the use of ironic and playful discourse these images interact as a proposition to question the everyday stature of objects and their use.

queering the familiar

queering the familiar

the position of the plinth

the position of the plinth

material uses

material uses

obstructed understanding

obstructed understanding