Leros, Greece, photograph by © Pietro Bertoa

Caterina Verde is an American and French artist whose work is most often presented in a cross-platform of media that includes video, installation, performance, drawing, photography, editions as well as 3d objects and earlier on, light works.

Aside from looking around for invisible stuff, which, honestly, is everywhere, I am quite taken by the tamped down atmosphere that humanity has created for itself.  I long for the day when the need to control isn't so much a part of the hypnotic programming. So, in the meantime, I look for other signs of life that lie dormant and surprise me. After all, being human is not a matter of practicality.

It might be construed that talking about the invisible is cocky or evasive. However, given that what we see is only a small fragment of what exists, the invisible realm, is probably the most obvious thing in our existence. The black hole is unseen until a telescope sees it swallowing up an entire galaxy.  So to talk about the invisible is to talk about the majority. The invisible is physical, political, racial, environmental, psychological, economic and so on.

The way that I was raised and because of the circumstances of my early life, I learned to read micro-expressions as a way of  getting to the essence of what people were really saying/feeling. It was a way of getting a handle on things by seeing what was not being revealed; a survival mechanism. Though not always accurate.  I think that much of the work that I do is about that.

A recent interview,  courtesy of Brainard Carey can be heard on Yale University Radio's Museum of Invisible Art. Interview by Brainard Carey.  link here

A recipient of a New York City Artist Corps grant, sponsored by NYFA and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Verde presented her ongoing project, "Inside Remote Viewing and the Recreational Vehicle" in Ridgewood, NY in autumn 2021.

Caterina Verde also co-founded, Peat and Repeat, an artist-run art edition publishing house

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Kassel, Germany, dOCUMENTA 13 © Caterina Verde