Kathryn Smith (b. 1975, Durban) graduated from Wits University with an MAFA
(distinction) in 1999. Her practice owes much to the forensic investigator's
ability to recreate inferred narratives from material that can often be
described as informational or media artefacts. Working in photography,
video, performance and installation, her research-based methods reconstitute
information, whether visual or textual, historically accurate or somewhat
fictional, engaging with the moment of modernity and its related
technologies, particularly with respect to opticality, visuality and the
development of psychoanalysis and criminology. Smith also works as a curator
and writer.
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