Exhibition
Miss Meatface: A fetishistic exploration into the world of Kat Toronto
22 Oct 2015 – 25 Oct 2015
Event times
7pm12am
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 265 Poyser Street
- Bethnal Green
- London
- E2 9RF
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 106, 254, 509, 588,D5, D6, N8, N255
- Bethnal Green central line tube
- Cambridge Heath Road overground train
Toronto is a multidisciplinary artist of cult status from the San Francisco Bay Area. She works across a myriad of different mediums and is currently focusing on self-portraiture using vintage Polaroid cameras and her popsurrealist costume and millinery designs.
About
Sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrific, she channels her own unique visceral vision with haunting images that lead the viewer through the alleyways of the fetish and the darkly erotic.
This is Toronto’s first solo show out of the United States. Her multidisciplinary work centers on fetishistic alter egos that include photographs of her popsurrealist costume designs.
“Miss Meatface,” Toronto’s principal alter ego, wearing costumes created just for her, is the focus of this exhibit.
Curator and owner of Resistance Gallery, Garry Vanderhorne, said that:
“The vintage feel of her work, created by using a variety of antiquated Polaroid cameras and Impossible Project film, often leaves the viewer feeling as if they’ve stepped back into a bizarre fetishistic world of yesteryear, long before the digital revolution.
It's like a sexual surrealist explosion of past present and future, as if Betty Page, Bunny Yeager, John Willie & Pierre Molinier had a gentically engineered love child of art!"
