Kristen (b.1992) is currently treading water in Tampa, FL and making pictures of the distances within communication.
Through renegotiative gestures wherein materiality is a scrim between protection and access, they grapple with questions of legibility and tenderness in making from loss.
Through the subjectivities of stewardship, she hopes to become a prism for another’s archive and memory.
Kristen completed their MFA from the University of New Mexico in 2018 and has since taught photo courses at the University of South Carolina, the University of South Florida, and the University of Tampa. They are serving as Visiting Assistant Professor at USF for the 2024-2025 academic year, which would not be possible without the support of her late mentor Wendy Babcox.
Kristen has been in residence with the CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF SUBSTRUCTURED LOSS for applied grief and bereavement research (London) and the School of Making Thinking (NY) to explore texts somatically and collaboratively. Their work has been shared online and in print. Recent exhibitions that have been important to her include When Do We Decide to Give It All Away? with Patrick M Carew in 2024 and Desiring Production, curated by Jocelyn Chase, in 2023, both in Tampa. In 2021, Kristen co-curated Bodies for Scale (This Has Happened Many Times Before), at Goodyear Arts in Charlotte, NC, wherein the bridges between us did, in fact, hold.
Kristen hopes you will visit cargocollective.com/jaroslawstudencki to keep alive the work of a brilliant artist/human with whom she shared too little time in this world....
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