Krystle Patel
I work across writing, sound and textile to create moving image works and site specific installations that exist in dialogue. My practice exists in time and is intentionally slippery and evasive reflecting the dynamic essence of the self. Research forms the basis of my process relying on experimentation, intuition and conversation. I am interested in language, where it is full and where it is empty, its most abstract and literal forms, language as alive and with limitations.
Concept and form align as I work materially with surface and energy flow considering the language of rhythm and shine as a counter to archaic perspectives on art and being rooted in Eurocentric views on taste. The current conversation around identity politics and its desire to know is violent and cloaked in good intentions fixing the body and its markers. My work seeks to disrupt that which enables order to be maintained and with clear boundaries, acting in the service of those in power. Uncertainty, confusion and instability are generative acts and I use these as spaces of potential from which I reach out and expand my practice.
Concept and form align as I work materially with surface and energy flow considering the language of rhythm and shine as a counter to archaic perspectives on art and being rooted in Eurocentric views on taste. The current conversation around identity politics and its desire to know is violent and cloaked in good intentions fixing the body and its markers. My work seeks to disrupt that which enables order to be maintained and with clear boundaries, acting in the service of those in power. Uncertainty, confusion and instability are generative acts and I use these as spaces of potential from which I reach out and expand my practice.
SOLO/ COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
It Must Be Real, It’s On TV, (2022) Auction House
Mr India/your body is fragranced (i love you, i love you, i love you) Airspace Gallery (2022)
pa-ra-did-dle, (2021) Turf Projects and Back Lane West
A Handful Of Sinister Scenarios (AKA Jump My Bones), (2021) The Florence Trust
Beige Carpets, (2019) Stanley Picker Gallery
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
NOW 22, (2022) Gerald Moore Gallery
Parental Guidance, (2022) SET Lewisham
Ghost Show, The Nightmare Before Christmas, (2021) HARTslane Gallery
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, (2021) First Site and South London Gallery
Euphoric, Procrastinarting (online)
I Decided To Give Up Rushing, (2021) Deptford X
Always Somewhere Else, (2021) Goldsmith’s University
Sculpture Exhibition, (2021) Stone Lane Gardens
Things From Inner Space, (2021) Rumit’s Flat, London
Group Show (online), (2021) Shrine, NYC
Future Visions, (2021) Hounslow Arts, Brentford Art Trail, Waterman’s Riverside Gallery
Winter Sculpture Park, (2021) Gallery 32
Winter Fair, (2020) East side projects
Southwark Park Gallery Annual Open (2020)
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
UCL Plun-Favreau Institute of Neurology, Artist in residence (2022-23)
We Are Superfluous
Government Art Collection
RTM FM, monthly residency
Aaja radio, monthly residency
Orbit Residency (2021)
The Exchange, (2021) Eastside Gallery
Excellence Fee waiver Goldsmiths University
PUBLICATION/EVENTS/PERFORMANCE
Closed Circuit Systems: Slime, Sublime, Sublimation (2022) The Horse Hospital
Closed Circuit Systems: Conspiracy (2022) Cubitt Gallery
A Dinner of Rageful Desire, We Are Superfluous (2022)
Gut feelings, (2021) Published with T.A.C.O
the world is not finished and the sky has not fallen – yet,(2021) Hundred Years Gallery