Kate Cooper’s videos explore how bodies are imagined and imaged, understood and controlled, and how they resist. Her practice considers the moving image as a visual somatic experience, with recent works using CGI and the visual language of medical imaging to explore the body, identity, labour and systems of control.
Infection Drivers (2018) presents a computer-generated woman wearing a translucent bodysuit that inflates and deflates, revealing a body that shifts between masculine and feminine forms before appearing bruised, scratched and unwell. Untitled (After Somatic Aliasing) (2022) draws on the visual language of MRI scans, depicting bodily fragments in repetitive motion alongside foley sounds inspired by the vocal and physical stimming used by neurodiverse people for self-regulation.
Kate Cooper (born 1984) has exhibited internationally, including at the New Museum, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; KW Institute, Berlin; Tate Modern, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. She lives in Amsterdam and London.
