The Tabernacle invites you to experience the travelling tent of wandering, with a multi sensory painting installation through the lens of gabber music’s pharmakon.

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The tabernacle was a tent made by Moses in ancient times, built under the premise of being God’s dwelling on Earth; the tent was omnipotent, well known for its potential to emancipate or destroy. Gabber music began in Rotterdam in the early 90s and was quickly adopted by hardcore ravers in Thatcher’s Britain, it is characterized by its relentlessly fast, loud and distorted sound. Creating an environment in which the audience becomes one collective body, worshipping not the DJ but the experience itself. Pharmakon is defined as the poison, remedy or scapegoat, the tabernacle conceptualises this in two formats: through the bodies and the spaces that we inhabit.

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Using UV reactive pigments, Kate has created paintings that exist in three stages within the installation – under normal gallery light, then UV light and finally darkness. Under UV light the pigments charge, absorbing and reflecting light and becoming their own light source, which they then emit in darkness, adjusting the opticality of the painting. The pigment acts as a living organism, reflecting back at us our own cyclical nature.​