Katrina Leigh Mendoza Raimann is a Filipino interdisciplinary artist based in Hong Kong. Working across textiles, installation, and performance, she tells stories of intimacy, relationships, and the body. Her art practice focuses on the histories of material and action, gender and labour. Derived through the exploration of memories, feelings, and lived experiences she depicts images of intangible spaces and landscapes. Her work delves into the uncertainty of the in-between: the shifting emotions that spatial (physical) distance and temporal distance creates, where a place stops being just a place and becomes a site of memory or an inaccessible future. 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.

Taken on an afternoon walk, these pieces are directed by the overlooked sights of nature entangled with complex emotions and feelings. Within these moments of reflection, the boundaries of the ‘in-between’ feelings are resolved into abstract figures. Organic shapes start to emerge, and a sensation of movement begins to form that is both calm and erratic. The co-existing messiness and uniformed lines are an explosion of emotions threaded into the flow of movement. There is also a tension created from the physical material object and the emotions applied to it. The carefully intertwined and knotted threads are held together in a frozen image of fading memories and intangible futures, endlessly changing but frozen still.

She received her degree in 2019 at Goldsmiths, University of London, BA Fine Art, First Class Honours.