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Kathleen Herbert

Sissinghurst
Kathleen Herbert lives and works in Kent. She has received several major awards from the Arts Council England, and British Council. In 2005 she was nominated for the Becks Futures Award. Recently Kath

I am intrigued in spaces and place around me the stories they tell and how we read them as a form of spatial text. I enjoy researching the apparent uninteresting or unsaid, which through further investigation reveal social political, and spatial narratives which are defined & redefined through history. In the past I have examined spaces by using the conventions of documentary filmmaking, focusing in on details from the everyday. Through video installation I use these details to reconstruct an uncanny spatial narrative, which explores a history and social politic that never quite fully reveals itself.

 

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