Katia Storey

My practice explores the relationship between personal history, systems of display, and art’s place within an increasingly technological world. Working across sublimation printing, photograms, and archival installation, I use sentimental objects—particularly jewellery—as conduits of history and self-identity. Influenced by my family history on my mother’s Russian side, my practice seeks to explore the tensions between my collection of inherited jewellery and its re-interpretation as imagery created through technological processes which resist the traditions of art making. My work is re-imagined via research which references museums and institutions which typically command public knowledge through detailed categorisation, storage, and overt display. I treat my practice as a ‘self-archive’, a personal process of making which is experimental and constantly changing hence always resisting a state of completion.