Mucosa - collaborative exhibition with Kate Power
August 2021
Outer Space, Brisbane
Mucosa is the first collaborative project between South Australian artists Kate Bohunnis and Kate Power. The work is a consideration of shared ideas of power, desire, queer identity, social relations and how these are stored in the body. Following a decade of friendship, this collaboration embraces trust through not knowing and valuing conversation over mastery as a way to create new perspectives.
Through experimentation with gesture, material limits are tested with a confluence between holding and collapsing to challenge systems of control, offering an alternative of empowering vulnerability and humorous deviation. In having a conversation between materials and differing approaches to touch, this new work embodies a process of squirming out of power structures. Suggesting a symbiosis and employing friendship as a methodology for making, we hope to propose a precarious optimism.
Work titles in order of appearance
How are you are you feeling, 2021, steel, timber, wax, plaster, papier-mâché, found objects, vinyl, chain. Courtesy of the artists
Mucosa, 2021, steel, silicon, pigment. Courtesy of the artists
I’m just about just about to, 2021, steel, plaster, silicon, pigment, papier-mâché, resin. Courtesy of the artists
If you need I will be, 2021, steel, papier-mâché, plaster, silicon, pigment. Courtesy of the artists
Documentation by Louis Lim