Breathe Deep is a kaleidoscope of 80’s and 90’s popular culture with dozens of localized perspectives, mixing two- and three-dimensional representations without physical constraints. The resulting virtual sculpture unifies these disparate layers, either captured from real-world objects like plastic toys and fake plants or inspired from digital artifacts like animated GIFs or fish swarms originating from nostalgic screen savers.
Katie Torn, growing up in this time of hyper-capitalism, delivers a hindsight portrait of a constantly overwhelmed female body, collecting and blending superficial entities manically – to defend the status quo of a veneer world that constantly is falling apart.
Breathe Deep was commissioned by the Denver Theater District / Denver Digerati 2014
Katie Torn, *1982, lives and works in New York.|
www.katietorn.com

The on-going screening series Phantom Horizons presents digital as well as analogue works that question the paradigm of linear perspective, seeking for a new kind of “status perspective” [Bedeutungsperspektive]. The latter was a development of medieval painting, in which the size of figures is determined by their hierarchical significance. Extending this approach and combining deconstructivistic ideas with today’s possibilities of film creation, the presented works open up multifaceted, unseen horizons.
Curated by Robert Seidel |www.robertseidel.com