Body Burden & Bloom - Kat Preston

Kat Preston Body Burden & Bloom 

How much room is a woman allowed to take up? What happens when society no longer values a woman's body? Why are our bodies measured before our character? These are the questions that have preoccupied me as a girl, a woman and an artist.Body, Burden & Bloom is the presentation of this self-exploration and acts as the documentation of my journey to love and accept the body I am in. 

The show is autobiographical, drawn from my experiences growing up as a girl who didn’t fit the mold and feeling like I didn't meet the shallow standards of beauty, form or behaviour that dictated what a girl ‘should’ be. That is the cruelty of an ideal: it is a rule dressed up as truth, and it changes with the century, the country and the crowd you run with. Body, Burden & Bloom explores womanhood,…