Matter Out of Place - Chloe Catto & Elsa Mona, Exhibition Essay (2025)
Written by Mia Palmer-VerevisElsa Mona and Chloe Catto each interrogate systems of value through materially rich, conceptually layered practices. Mona’s work foregrounds the body as a site of vulnerability and transformation, using performance and abject sculptural forms to reflect on the relationship between human and non-human existence and the inevitability of decay. In contrast, Catto’s practice turns to industrial objects and discarded materials, questioning how systems of power shape our relationship to matter, progress and worth. Where Mona invites a tender reckoning with the abject and the visceral, Catto offers an unpacking of material agency and entropy.
Matter Out of Place presents new, experimental work from both Mona and Catto, produced during their Hatched Studio Residencies at PICA. Curated by Mia Palmer-Verevis, Hatched Curatorial Associate 2025-26.