KATIE PROCK | Nowheresville, 2024

Nowheresville is a handmade accordion book that includes fifteen photographic collages. The project pairs the sensation of being lost in one’s own internal landscape with the experience of being geographically lost. Overlaying psychic geography onto physical, the compositions plot this borderless state using images taken across the United States. The sparse collages highlight desolate landscapes, inscrutable signs, scraps of a map, partially erased pencil marks, and lonely human figures navigating empty white space. Influenced by the eerie landscapes of the surrealist movement, Nowheresville twists the familiar into a maze of misfortunes lurking just out of view.

BIO

Katie Prock is a photographic artist and book maker. Prock earned her MFA in Studio Art at Florida Atlantic University, where she now works as an instructor. Her practice utilizes alternative printing techniques and incorporates handcrafted processes which emphasize chance occurrence and imperfections. Her work and research focus on topics such as identity, gender, family history, and girlhood. In addition to being exhibited across the United States, Prock’s work has been featured abroad in the Body + Memory + City Photo Festival in Alicante, Spain, and Fotofestival Lenzburg in Switzerland.