DOMESTIC
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96 pages
17 x 24cm
Soft Jacket Cover, exposed binding
Text: Martin Johnsson and Katrina Stamatopoulos
Design: Camille Yvert
ISBN: 978-1-0369-0158-5
Printing: Future Format, Patras, Greece
Cover screenprinted by Katrina Stamatopoulos at Sektor 30, Athens
Unique edition of 100
Published in December 2024
Each copy comes with a signed contact print
Katrina Stamatopoulos
40,00 €
DOMESTIC is grounded in research on the food production industry, and focuses on relationships between humans and animals, eaters and eaten.
The project originates from found 16mm agricultural and advertising footage shot in the United States during the 1960s—a pivotal era of industrial and technological transformation in agriculture, marked by the increasing replacement of labor and land with chemical applications and machinery.
Over time, as the 16mm film deteriorated, sections were damaged by projectors and had to be trimmed. These isolated strips were hand-printed in the darkroom, forming the visual foundation of DOMESTIC, characterized by transitions between positive and negative imagery. This process led to diverse image-making endeavors: photographing farm work in rural New South Wales, Australia; documenting manufactured food waste in London, UK; and incorporating found human X-rays, scientific imagery, and site-specific installations that explore the body as a 'coop'.
The book focuses on livestock and poultry—species closely associated with humans—and examines how they have undergone gene silencing, mutations, and behavioral changes through evolution and cohabitation with humans. DOMESTIC raises critical questions about potential future biological adaptations arising from these interdependent relationships and includes excerpts from conversations between artist Katrina Stamatopoulos and Martin Johnsson, a quantitative geneticist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden.
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Katrina is an Australian artist based in London
Her research fixates on questioning the representation of photography, and it’s meaning as object and collective form. She is interested in consumption, and making connections between food and images; their digestion and representation, source and distribution, and entwining as daily process.
Katrina’s work manifests through her making process. Working with or without a camera, she often works in the darkroom with found or expired paper stocks, practices hand retouching, bookmaking, facilitates chemigrams and makes pinhole cameras (placing them covertly in public). Found material is often her starting point, and can range from objects, X-rays, 16mm film and food waste, to discarded photographic materials and negatives found at commercial labs in London.
After finishing an MFA at Goldsmiths in London, 2020, she has since then, co-founded the project space Equivalentbehaviour in North London with Storquestudios, and has exhibited Internationally. Katrina is a Project Manager of the London Alternative Photography Collective.
Exhibitions include: Built Photography, Museum of Australian Photography (MAPH), Melbourne (2024),
Symbiosis 1 + 2, A Hundred Years Gallery/ Four Corners, London (2024) Transmutation, The Margate School, Margate (2023) Un/Sense, Christie's, London (2022) the MFA Graduate Show, Goldsmiths, London, (2020) SURGE, the Courtauld East Wing Biennial, at Somerset House, London (2019) and Altered States, St Johns Crypt, London (2019).
Solo Exhibitions include Aeterna, a bi-personal exhibition with Lorena Florio at Mucho Mas!, Turin, Italy (2024), and Preying for Modesty (Meatheads), PhotoAccess, Canberra, Australia (2021).
Katrina was awarded the DYPC grant from Arts Council England in 2024, which assisted in the undertaking of a Residency at Tenedou Space in Athens and the production of her book project DOMESTIC.
