Chrysalis, 2023

This on-going collaboration between Kate Street and Hollie Miller initially emerged from conversations of narrative imagery, folklore, myth and sexuality. Miller’s performative practice and Street’s Frankenstein approach to image making, has birthed a series of ‘performative collages’. Miller's statuesque poses undergo constant metachrosis and reconfiguration as she’s mounted on plinths with motifs from nature as an ode to the ironic girliness of British Kitsch that subverts sexist and grandiose Greek mythology (such as the tale of Pygmalion and his animated from ivory statue Galatea). Their most recent work delves into the archives of museum photography, notable that of male Modern Masters, where upon Street and Miller craft their own responsive composites through a feminist lens, where statues are reanimated and misbehave - figurative elements once distilled down, mutate and shape shift into a new kind of beauty before becoming fixed again, with the animated motifs emphasising the stillness of the hybrid sculpture.