Six Collages

by Kayte Terry

My work examines the literal and figurative boundaries of the body. Through photography, video, collage, installation, and object-making, I unravel issues of illness, family, memory, longing, and loss. As a queer woman living with a cluster of auto-immune diseases, I’m interested in both making the invisible illness visible and finding beauty in pain and restriction. I've always been into spooky stuff, but I've gotten a lot deeper into the genre when I realized that a theme ever-present in horror is body permeability and the radical possibilities one can find on the other side of abjection. I take a lot of screenshots of horror movies (I'm in a deep '70s Argento phase at the moment—love all that redder than red blood) and use them as references in my work.

This series of collages arose out of a new podcast project, Tender Subject, I'm co-hosting about cannibalism. We talk about everything from horror movies to art manifestos and how cannibalism as metaphor is useful in exploring politics, erotics, and identity. I love that the splicing/patchworking of paper in collage feels like building a body and also a world. Practically, collage is a cheap democratic art form, necessary for my broke, post-grad school life.

Created for theTender Subject episode on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Created for a Tender Subject episode on Raw

Created for Tender Subject episodes 1 and 2

Created for the Tender Subject episode on the Cannibal Manifesto

Created for the Tender Subject episode on Antiviral

Created for an episode on early Christianity and cannibalism