‘Made this Way’

Kate Howe, 2023. 250cm x 220cm, Sutured Belgian Linen and Rabbit Skin Glue. Collection: The Polemics of Pulling, Painting.

“The forces that pull bodies apart and the incredible strength and resources it takes to draw them back together is the fusion engine of my work - these forces are always an event; they occur almost simultaneously: pulling together, pulling apart. Anyone who has ever tried to bring the edges of something back together knows about suturing. Anyone who has felt the rupture building and building only to happen in our bodies, in our lives, knows about triage.

These polemic forces destroy political bodies, corporeal bodies, bodies of ideology, and geology. These forces are always political. They are not always negative, punitive, or unwelcome. 

Every rending demands a repair, every repair leaves a mark, and every mark informs the future; in every future, inevitably, the rending occurs again…”

-Excerpts from Howe’s writing. Read more…