Katianna Condé

Media Arts & Sciences and Spanish major

I am interested in the tactility of memory and dreams and how they manifest in the physical waking realm, particularly in relation to existent forms. What forms exist in these distinct worlds? Through printmaking, sculpture, and drawing I delve into the concept of locale, both real and imagined, and the connections that bring together these two contradicting collections of space-based memory. My work examines the mutability of inner fantasy and how the combined distortion of two pivotal layers that exist between a person and the perception of place-- dream and memory-- function in relation to the 'real' location itself.

In/Tangible

plaster, pen, ink, printmaking

This collection of works explores distant forms and the textures that bridge dreams and the waking sphere. It begins with a series of monoprints from early 2019 entitled Is It Here? and a spin-off series entitled Three Motions. These prints explore the feeling of searching for, and perhaps also endeavoring to create, a sense of place through a movable matrix of shapes. I replicate the matrix in a plaster piece, Directionality and the Pursuit, that is rearrangeable and fluid despite the austerity of its discrete forms. This process led to a deeper exploration in the medium with a focus on texture. Part of this exploration is done with pen and ink while part is rendered in plaster. The forms in Waiting for Space and Waiting for Feeling explore physicality and offer anthropomorphic suggestions of semi-tangible dream figures. They are both landscapes and beings at once. Though they are out of reach as figures, their medium, size, and shape makes the sculptures physically grasp-able. This juxtaposition is one that I am continuing to play with in an ongoing exploration of space and mapping of place and the in/tangible.

Please click on the images below to view each series of works.

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