Isabella Catenaro is an emerging performance and installation artist based in Meanjin [Brisbane], Australia. Khôra seeks to confront the pseudo-dilemma presented by demarcated orders: piety versus sin, feminine versus masculine, purity versus abjection. Catenaro characterises the theory of Khôra through representations of the feminine body as Christ: inaugurating transgressive narratives that conflate sacraments with the profane. Ritualistic anointing and playful purification are enacted through the choreography of contamination and communion. In Catenaro’s Eucharist, bread and wine is exchanged for salt as the body and aromatic oil as the blood.
My current practice is currently exploring the spatiality of olfaction and granting agency to temporal forces through sound and performance art.
