Kate Owens

Kate Owens covets the life of the flaneur. Her observations of the small defects and diversions in daily routines take on a significance beyond their scale. Evoking Godard’s coffee cup moment; “…since every event transforms my daily life… I must listen, I must look around more than ever.”[1], the work is perpetually flitting between its familiar micro identity and a more abstract macro state.
In the Country Cousin series, water damaged prints transform before the eyes to acquire pictorial depth and narrative before becoming ink runs on paper once more. This transient condition along with a refusal to become permanent, adds to the works vulnerability. In the end the viewer can only believe in its existence or not.

[1] Two or Three Things I know About Her…Jean-Luc Godard, France 1966