Geng’s single channel video pairs her hand-sewn fabric puppets with the insights and narrations of family and friends, to offer a visual meditation on self-care. Using the loose structure of a maintenance manual and a steadily rising and falling breath as a reoccurring backdrop, the video explores the symbiotic relationship between human and puppet as caregivers, companions and mirrors to one another. Sprinkled throughout the film, multi-generational voices from the artist’s close communities - fellow adoptees, artists, family and friends - offer their own approaches and struggles with this topic to create a warm collective narration. Puppet Guide to Human Self-Care doesn’t purport to offer all the answers but instead suggests that the question of care is one that we can all benefit from ruminating on.
Kat Geng’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA; 826 Valencia, Black & White Projects, Guerrero Gallery, Incline Gallery, and State Space, all San Francisco, CA; Royal Nonesuch Gallery and ProArts Gallery, both Oakland, CA; and Superchief Gallery NFT and Field Projects, both New York, NY. Geng’s recent solo shows include those at The Royal Nonesuch Gallery and NIAD Art Center, both CA. Geng was a 2021 AIM Fellow at The Bronx Museum of the Arts andan artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and Vermont Studio Center. Geng received her BA in Art History from Bard College.
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24 авг 2022
