Longmont, CO 80502
Material Nature by installation artist Katie Caron
Using the natural history museum’s mode of display, Material Nature createsenvironments that raise questions about the human habitat’s unfortunate impact on the earth’s ecosystems, through material consumption within the short time span of human civilization.
Installation artist Katie Caron is 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 film, theatrical effects, and installation objects, she immerse viewers in the experience of an illusion—what’s real and what’s fabrication?
Caron’s work raises questions of contemporary society: how technology affects our daily lives, mediates our experiences, alienates our instincts. By personifying inanimate forms with agency and creating fictional environments, she hopes to surprise viewers with their own internal worlds and see their community through a new lens.
