Camia refers to the name of the wreck diving place that Katrina did in Philippines, and it also means a kind of local flowers.

Katrina Leigh Mendoza Raimann’s working across textiles, installation, and performance, she tells stories of intimacy, relationships, and the body. In this exhibition, Katrina’s contemporary textile practice threads landscapes and mosaic patterns into intricate tapestries. Her art practice focuses on the histories of material and action, gender and labour.

Katrina describes her works, “My recent works draw upon the exploration of memories, feelings, and lived experiences; depicted through images of intangible spaces and landscapes. I find myself always associating memories with the environments they took place in. These environments then become spaces at acquire the feelings and emotions contained in the memories. The landscapes I depict are spaces that delve into the uncertainty of the in-between. The shifting of emotions that spatial (physical) distance and temporal distance creates; where a place stops being just a place but a site of memory or inaccessible future. I am also very interested in the relationship between the making process and the memories I depict in my work. The boundaries between the physical and intangible are also explored in the creation process. A sensation of movement that is sometimes calm and sometimes erratic is held still through the carefully intertwined and knotted threads. “

Katrina Leigh Mendoza Raimann is a Filipino interdisciplinary artist based out of Hong Kong and graduated BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.