MOT International London are delighted to present Reality Flickers, a new work by Katrina Palmer for her first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Death, sex, loss and sculpture collide in Palmer’s new installation. The melodrama begins with an encounter between the protagonist, Reality Flickers, and the Heart Beast, otherwise known as ‘the dog’, ‘the fucker’, ‘the trickster’. All that remains is a retrieved oversized steel locker and the reverberant narrative in its walls.

In Reality Flickers found and imagined objects provide the catalyst for obscure internal narratives and critical speculation. Combining writing, installed audio recording and live performance, Palmer’s practice relocates sculpture within shifting, capricious worlds and fictional spaces.
Katrina Palmer (b.1967) lives and works in London. She was recently awarded the 2013 Artangel Open Commission, for a new project which will excavate an undisclosed place in England through writing and installation. She is also the author of The Dark Object, a series of connected stories about power relations in a fictional art school.

Additional forthcoming projects include a new commission for the 2014 Whitstable Biennale and her next book, The Fabricator’s Tale, to be published by Book Works in 2014. Previous exhibitions include 21st Century, Chisenhale Gallery, London (solo: 2013); From Morn ‘Til Midnight, Supportico Lopez, Berlin (2013); Orpheus Twice, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2013); The Weight of Living, MOT International, London (2012); Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2011).

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/21420