Kara Uzelman, The Cavorist Projects
17 Jan - 28 Feb 2009
Kara Uzelman, The Cavorist Projects, drawing for poster, 2008
Kara Uzelman, The Cavorist Projects, installation view,Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, 2009
Kara Uzelman, The Cavorist Projects, installation view,Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, 2009
Kara Uzelman
Cavorite Music Box, 2009
cardboard, wood, metal, magnets, 3 music boxes, glass
object: 46 x 35 x 26 cm; glass plinth: 96 x 36 x 36 cm
Cavorite Music Box, 2009
cardboard, wood, metal, magnets, 3 music boxes, glass
object: 46 x 35 x 26 cm; glass plinth: 96 x 36 x 36 cm
Kara Uzelman
Cavorist Archive, 2009
mixed media
dimensions variable
Cavorist Archive, 2009
mixed media
dimensions variable
Kara Uzelman
Magnetic Stalactite, 2009
metal, magnets, coins
155 x ø 50 cm
Magnetic Stalactite, 2009
metal, magnets, coins
155 x ø 50 cm
Kara Uzelman
Observation Tank A, 2009
Yukon River water, glass, wood, inner tube, string
210 x ø 20 cm and
Kara Uzelman
Observation Tank B, 2009
Spree River water, glass, inner tube, coins, wool, string, metal
155 x ø 42 cm
Observation Tank A, 2009
Yukon River water, glass, wood, inner tube, string
210 x ø 20 cm and
Kara Uzelman
Observation Tank B, 2009
Spree River water, glass, inner tube, coins, wool, string, metal
155 x ø 42 cm
Kara Uzelman
Floating Bottle, Top of the World, 2009
b+w print, cardboard, wood, glass
54 x 50 x 5 cm
Floating Bottle, Top of the World, 2009
b+w print, cardboard, wood, glass
54 x 50 x 5 cm
Kara Uzelman
Floating Tent, Top of the World, 2009
b+w print, cardboard, wood, glass
42 x 44,5 x 2 cm
Floating Tent, Top of the World, 2009
b+w print, cardboard, wood, glass
42 x 44,5 x 2 cm
Kara Uzelman
Cavorite Expedition, Chilkoot Pass, 2009
b+w print, cardboard, wood, glass
78,5 x 78,5 x 4 cm
Cavorite Expedition, Chilkoot Pass, 2009
b+w print, cardboard, wood, glass
78,5 x 78,5 x 4 cm
Kara Uzelman
The Cavorist Projects
exhibition 17 January – 28 February 2009
Sommer & Kohl are pleased to present the first solo exhibition with Canadian artist Kara Uzelman (*1978).
The Cavorist Projects explores the relationship between found materials and narrative. The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells tells the story of the scientist Joseph Cavor who discovers an element, Cavorite, which is impervious to the force of gravity. This fictional element inspired a group of followers who believed in the ideas brought forth by Wells; the possibility that anti-gravity situations may be achievable and that an element such as Cavorite might really exist. As time went on and scientific advancements were made, many Cavorists began to realize that anti-gravity situations may not be possible and shifted their studies to the research of gravity itself. This division of belief between those who still subscribed to the possibility of anti-gravity and those who did not became the great split in the movement and in 1994, after 110 years of work, the Cavorists officially disbanded.
The work in this exhibition consists of a series of inventions, experiments, and historical documents left over from a movement of people that followed the ideas of Joseph Cavor; as well as an interview with Canadian scientist John Hutchison, who researches anti-gravity and free energy.
With an educational background based in urban planning, fine arts and archeology, Kara Uzelman has developed process-based, site specific sculpture and installation works focusing on the rehabilitation of objects and artefacts in her surrounding environment. Four years ago she began buying entire garage sales and transforming these collections into sculptures, installations and performance props. In conjunction with a mentorship in Archaeology in 2006, she gathered a team of volunteers to conduct a four-month excavation of her back yard in Vancouver. This informed several exhibitions over the past three years and resulted in a series of performance props, tools, objects and documentary images. Uzelman's work is based on an interest in the historical and imagined narratives inherent in the objects that surround her.
Kara Uzelman's works will be on view in the exhibition How Soon Is Now at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (CA) from 7 February to 3 May 2009 and she will have a solo presentation at Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto (CA) in April 2009. Uzelman is a member of the Vancouver-based artist collective Norma.
For further information and/or images please contact Sommer & Kohl.
The Cavorist Projects
exhibition 17 January – 28 February 2009
Sommer & Kohl are pleased to present the first solo exhibition with Canadian artist Kara Uzelman (*1978).
The Cavorist Projects explores the relationship between found materials and narrative. The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells tells the story of the scientist Joseph Cavor who discovers an element, Cavorite, which is impervious to the force of gravity. This fictional element inspired a group of followers who believed in the ideas brought forth by Wells; the possibility that anti-gravity situations may be achievable and that an element such as Cavorite might really exist. As time went on and scientific advancements were made, many Cavorists began to realize that anti-gravity situations may not be possible and shifted their studies to the research of gravity itself. This division of belief between those who still subscribed to the possibility of anti-gravity and those who did not became the great split in the movement and in 1994, after 110 years of work, the Cavorists officially disbanded.
The work in this exhibition consists of a series of inventions, experiments, and historical documents left over from a movement of people that followed the ideas of Joseph Cavor; as well as an interview with Canadian scientist John Hutchison, who researches anti-gravity and free energy.
With an educational background based in urban planning, fine arts and archeology, Kara Uzelman has developed process-based, site specific sculpture and installation works focusing on the rehabilitation of objects and artefacts in her surrounding environment. Four years ago she began buying entire garage sales and transforming these collections into sculptures, installations and performance props. In conjunction with a mentorship in Archaeology in 2006, she gathered a team of volunteers to conduct a four-month excavation of her back yard in Vancouver. This informed several exhibitions over the past three years and resulted in a series of performance props, tools, objects and documentary images. Uzelman's work is based on an interest in the historical and imagined narratives inherent in the objects that surround her.
Kara Uzelman's works will be on view in the exhibition How Soon Is Now at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (CA) from 7 February to 3 May 2009 and she will have a solo presentation at Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto (CA) in April 2009. Uzelman is a member of the Vancouver-based artist collective Norma.
For further information and/or images please contact Sommer & Kohl.