Katrina Stamatopoulos : Dip & Dunk!

27th June - 5th July, 2026

HAPAX welcomes Katrina Stamatopoulos for a residency at HAPAX Living Room, our West London space dedicated to showing new or experimental forms of lens-based art

Dip and Dunk! looks at how images are made and interpreted amongst institutional systems of vision. In histopathology, diagnosis depends on trained visual literacy: the ability to recognise cellular structures and abnormalities through specialised observation. Photography, on the other hand, occurs in real time. It is not only understood as being images or objects, but is a way of seeing that mediates our relation to vision itself.

The work stems from found sets of histological slides sourced on eBay, which have then been reworked in the darkroom using analogue and experimental photographic processes. Degrading photographic materials are also reclaimed, and foreground processes of decay, contamination, and preservation.

Tracing the interconnected histories of medical imaging and photography, Dip and Dunk! is based upon the industrial development and materiality of image making, and considers how bodies and organisms are made visible through these systems.

About the artist:

Katrina Stamatopoulos is an Australian artist based in London whose work examines the entanglement of human and nonhuman life through the lenses of consumption, labour, and image-making. She traces how cycles of nourishment, decay, and reproduction manifest both in the body and in the photographic medium itself.

Her work often begins with discarded or unstable materials: expired photographic papers, found 16mm film, commercial waste, x-rays, packaging, food remnants, and damaged archives. The histories embedded within these materials inform both her research and process.

Through experimental hand-printing techniques, chemical manipulation, re-photographing and installation, Katrina approaches photography as a site of displacement, examining the medium’s abilities to translate and deceive.

After finishing an MFA at Goldsmiths in London, 2020, she has since then, exhibited internationally and co-founded the project space Equ ivalentbehaviour in North London. Katrina is a Project Manager of the London Alternative Photog raphy Collective

Loction: HAPAX Living Room, 17 Empress Place, London SW6 1TT

Opening: 27th June, 2 - 8 pm
Please join us for the opening celebration of Katrina’s exhibition in the Living Room.

Exhibition viewing times:

Saturday 27th June - opening afternoon 2-8pm
Sunday 28th June - open from 12-5pm
Friday 3rd July - open from 12-5pm
Saturday 4th July - open from 12-5pm
Sunday 5th July - open from 12-5pm

And by appointment outside of these times please email editors@hapaxmagazine.com

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HAPAX Magazine is co-directed by Christiane Monarchi and Gordon MacDonald. HAPAX Magazine takes its name from the literary term ‘hapax legomenon’ describing something unique, new and ‘said only once’. Twice a year, HAPAX commissions artists and curators to produce new photographic projects which are shared only in the pages of the publication and not on the internet. Proceeds from sales of magazines are reinvested into future publishing commissions, to support photographic projects and the creative professionals making them.

HAPAX Living Room is dedicated to showing new or experimental forms of lens-based art in the living room of our office, part of the creative spaces of Empress Studios, in Earls Court, London. For more information and details on upcoming exhibitions, how to visit us, propose a project or take part in an event, please look out for announcements on our site. hapaxmagazine.com‍ ‍

For more information, images or to arrange an interview or appointment with the artist, please contact: editors@hapaxmagazine.com.

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