2013/14 - LISTE 18 | The young art fair in Basel

Sommer & Kohl1/2/1Sommer & KohlPatricia KohlSalome SommerKurfürstenstrasse 13/14DE-10785 BerlinT +49 30 23 00 55 81M +49 163 880 65 38M +49 179 478 14 78info@sommerkohl.comwww.sommerkohl.comShown at LISTE:Matt Calderwood, 1975, UKAndreas Eriksson, 1975, SEKara Uzelman, 1978, CAOther Artists of the Gallery:Eva Berendes, DEBeni Bischof, CHAlexandre da Cunha, BRKnut Henrik Henriksen, NOJeroen Jacobs, NLTony Just, USDeborah Ligorio, ITAdrian Lohmüller, DEPaul McDevitt, GBRiccardo Previdi, ITKara UzelmanAntenna, LastMountain BirdSanctuary, 2013C-print,edition 1/3 + 1 AP68.5 × 48.5 cm,framed160 / 161With a background in contemporary art,urban planning and archaeology, KaraUzelman constructs elaborate pseudohistoricalnarratives for hitherto discarded,forlorn objects. She works with scavengedmaterials to explore the possible storiesembedded in found materials. Her growingbody of work has consistently evaluatedthe object’s potential for alternative sourcesof meaning beyond what is read orunderstood on the surface. Uzelman’s workis an interruption in our collective drivetowards mega-production and the disposableobject; it proposes a landscape in whichobjects begin to assert themselves andreveal layer upon layer of alternativemeaning.The works for LISTE stem from Uzelman’srecent move to rural Saskatchewan,and her research into renegade communitiesthat have historically populated this remotearea. Sourcing materials from garagesales, adhoc excavations, and exploratorymeanderings in the countryside, this seriesis composed of an ongoing collectionof fabricated artefacts and documented siteworks. Uzelman engages techniquesassociated with regional homesteading,survivalist culture and experimentalarchaeology. Through this collection ofobjects and imagery, a material languageof salvaged and reassembled twentiethcentury refuse is developed, generating agateway for reflection on the possiblepast and future of objects, their lost historiesand their possible stories.