There is a shifty logic applied to the objects she uses through her attempts to construct something physically unfamiliar yet already existent within her psyche. While her work possesses an uncanny, angelic quality, it also embodies the systems she references, and their by-products, their shoddy barriers, and their hypocriticalities. She applies care and repair as methodologies, tending closely to the desires of the objects she uses. There is a desire to carry the objects past their status as waste, and into a new territory, where they may allow their properties and histories to communicate in service of something larger.
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artist member of Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.
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unless otherwise stated, all works herein are copyright of the artist & require written permission from the artist for reproduction. © catia colagioia, 2025.
sapphira, 2025
- tire, envelope addressed to sapphira, fruit netting, wax,
- charcoal, glue, staples, screws, on canvas
- 24 x 24 In
construction elevator (vigilant holding), 2024
audio recorded on March 28, 2024 at 3201 Cuthbert Street (construction site owned by Gattuso Vigilant Holdings) with inter-spliced audio of trees being cut down & dried bark being manipulated. 1 hour 30 minutes 53 seconds, looped for the length of the gallery day.
2 ft 2 in x 3 ft 9 in x 6 ft 5 in
construction elevator (vigilant holding) (2024) is a resurrective gesture. It is a monument built with precarity, mirroring the shoddy systems that have produced each piece of the sculpture, and deemed nearly each one as waste. Within this structure, an anomaly is suspended: hollowed bark that sings–bark that is reanimated, and privileged with the ability to conduct sound. The screeching of a construction elevator is followed by silence, then birds, and then the visceral screech of a saw, and the cracking of tree bark–a droning soundscape that induces remembrance of the moment of loss–the moment where each thing ceases to exist as it was. On an actual level, the work tends to the context within which it exists. The bark conducts sound, and the elevator is a monument to mark the common experience of space & waste, of destruction & construction. On some transcendent level, this work travels through time and liveness; it prods the fantastical. It's a somehow-magical device that muses on the nature of change, of memory, of capture, recall, and relay. Upon noticing the wooden feathers that float within the tensely pulled chains and the delicately crocheted pieces of twine that cascade through the steel cutouts, framed by turned pine spindles, the monument becomes a memorial to all that will be "what once was," touched by a caring hand.
pulling a window, puncturing a wall, 2024
- projection performance,
performance, 7 min 8 sec; video document 6 min 45 sec