Kim Kitchen
October 15th – November 8th, 2024
To meet up, to arrive once again, a convergence of being and becoming. The shoreline is both refuge and passage—one emerges from or enters through.
To Re-convene // To Shoreline exposes Kim’s honouring of sacred earth. It offers a reflection in depth, perspective and experience, with appreciation and joy at finding ‘self’ once again in the natural landscape. It navigates ideas of separation—through illness, disability, lack of access, and ideas of return—through creativity, (re)discovery, community. It explores how our bodies can be covered—in safety, in isolation or in hiding; and uncovered—in kinship, ecstasy and determination.
Kim’s multimedia journey invites others to immerse in the layers of ambivalence in their lives, uncovering and re-covering their own locations in relation to self and earth.
About the Artist
Kim Kitchen is a multidisciplinary artist working in audio and film as a result of a debilitating and transformative illness. She explores collective cultural understandings of the female body, its intersections with and presence within the natural world. This is evident through the inclusion of ritual in her work – particularly in To Re-convene // To Shoreline – which draws on her lifelong connection to the Primordial Mother, and to knowledge of her ancestral homelands of old Europe. This ongoing research and consciousness has deeply influenced her artistic practice, which has been largely tactile, focused on painting, sculpture, installation and performance.
Currently, Kim engages her practice of critical inquiry of body/land relations and the self-reflexive relationship between ability and artistic production through largely multimedia approaches. With significant changes in mobility, old spaces become unknown insofar as the body must learn anew how to navigate through them.
Kim’s community activism is inclusive, celebratory, and exuberant. In contrast, her work is introspective, thoughtful, and prompts quiet reflection. Now more than ever, interdependence is fundamental for this disabled artist.
About Factory Media Centre
Factory Media Centre is Hamilton’s not-for-profit artist-driven resource centre for film, video, new media, installation, sound art, and other multimedia art forms. Our mission is to develop and support a vibrant, sustainable, creative, and diverse community of Members and non-Members within Hamilton and its surrounding region.