Yore:ii

PNP Summer AIR Exhibition
Opens Sept 5th 6-9PM
On view Sept 5-28th
Gallery Hours Saturday, Sunday 2-6

An installation by Kat Nzingha

In Yore:ii, Kat Nzingha examines solitude and isolation as necessary—though divergent—apparatuses of transformation. Solitude, in this context is an intimate landscape: a space of reflection, growth, and evolution. Isolation, however, carries the colder weight of societal absence—of bein unseen. Yore:ii is both a sensory and visual meditation on transformation, solitude, and the hidden forces of change.

The installation invites viewers into a transmuted space where the boundaries between life form, object, and environment blur and reform. Air brushed surfaces may appear soft, gently glimmering but with closer inspection exposes a sharper, more dangerous reality.Here, solitude is seen as necessary and generative, a space for self-realization and self-recognition. Through this immersive experience, Kat Nzingha bridges the physical and digital, the seen and the unseen, exploring transformation not through a fixed sense of identity, but through a constant state of reformation. Yore:ii holds a space where both solitude and isolation can co-exist, each speaking to the other in a dynamic, ongoing process of change.

Yore:ii is a meditation on the trans experience—one of continual flux and reconfiguration, where identity is not static but an ever-evolving journey toward self-realization.

Kat Nzingha is the brainchild of Philadelphia-based experimentalist Kator Moore. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Kat Nzingha is a multidisciplinary artist exploring abstruse textures through sound, performance, technology, and sculpture. Their work references the experience of the transitioning body, showing the importance of reformation and becoming. Bridging physical and digital realms, their cryptic sounds extend from sculptural objects. Using constituent forms, industrial materials, and digital hardware, Kat Nzingha expresses the trans experience as a feeling of change. Their work sparks discussions that raise new and urgent questions about change, identity, and the body.

After releasing an EP, Angeltribe on London label TT in 2020, and Vorphic Skin on Toothgrinder Press in 2023, Kat Nzingha released the album Grind on AngeltribeXTL. Shortly after, they released RIM under the artist name BRYYA on the label formfourm, which features granular synthesis and other sound design techniques. Kat Nzingha has performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Philadelphia, participated in Philadelphia’s Sound Museum Video Synthesis Residency in 2023, and is a current Vox Populi member.