Katie Caron

I am fascinated by escapism: how and why our senses transport us to imaginary worlds, how electronic media change the way we feel the present moment and how it can mediate our lives. Through integrated media and installation objects, I immerse viewers in the experience of an illusion—what’s real and what’s fabrication?

These new worlds become psychological spaces, where unconscious reactions shape emotion, where certain sounds, lighting and objects may provoke fear or incite wonder. These worlds often address environmental points of crisis, and the materials used reference the environments they conversely impact.

In my work I raise questions of contemporary society: how technology and consumption affects our daily lives, impacting our environment, mediating our experiences, and alienating our instincts. By personifying inanimate forms with agency and creating fictional spaces, I hope to surprise my viewers with their own internal worlds and see their community through a new lens.