Film
Mail Art
by Kate Gorman
about the art
Daniel Corral (video) and Kate Gorman (visual art) examine color as both a sensory phenomenon and a cultural constant. Working across light and pigment, their pieces invite close attention to the sensation of color — how it is registered in the eyes, processed by the mind, felt through the body, and filtered through culture.
In his film, Colours, Daniel Corral explores color through sound, language, and light. The film samples brief moments from popular songs that name a color, pairing each excerpt with the written word as it shifts hue onscreen. Through repetition, the work produces subtle visual and auditory hallucinations that draw attention to each color’s formal qualities: rhythm, tone, and the word itself. The result is a relationship to color that is both internal—the sensations shaped by individual perception—and shared as widely recognizable cultural references.
Across her practice, Kate Gorman uses material, scale, and instruction to reveal experience as an active process, emphasizing color as something activated by attention and position. Colorblend (red, green, blue) is a set of three interactive prints that use cyan, magenta, and yellow—the foundational pigments of printing—to produce optical blending. Each print tells the viewer at what distance the effect activates with text created in a grid of offset, stitch-like crosses and slashes that simulate the look of a rainbow roll printing style. From up close, the text and grid remains distinct; from a distance, they visually merge into new colors echoing the mechanics of LED screens, printing processes, and perceptual phenomena like Magic Eye images.
Together, Colours and Colorblend (red, green, blue) slow down a ubiquitous experience, allowing color to emerge as a physical event. They emphasize perception as an active process, positioning color not as a fixed attribute, but as sensation through interaction.