Grondskryf is centred around Katz’s interests in human engagement with, and notions of, the earth. Dismantling the notion of people being the keepers of space/place, she instead posits space/place as the keeper of its occupants. A series of three dimensional drawings made from wire and other materials salvaged from used and discarded beds, the sculptures are a continuation of Katz’s exploration into the charting of existing places and memories as well as imagined spaces, or dreamscapes.

With this body of work, Katz investigates the potential of her chosen materials to serve as markers and representations of space and memory. Having sourced most of her materials from the various places where she has lived, she employs them as signifiers for these locations, informed by the readymade forms and structures of the salvaged bedsprings and mattresses.

Taking its title from the literal translation of the word geography, Grondskryf (’earth writing’) examines the constructed and subjective nature of map-making through sculptural depictions of these existing and imagined geographies. Katz seeks to bend the given language of cartography, and her ‘drawings’ mark out lines which re-image and re-think space and place.