"Sari Carel / The Museum of Commerce (with Eric Legris)" Exhibition
La MaMa La Galleria
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In this show Sari Carel focusses on fragments of the wild shimmering within the urban environment. An audio piece is built from the songs of three bird species endemic to New York: the Black Rail, an endangered species, the Pregerine Falcon – also at risk – but making an encouraging comeback, and the Red Tailed Hawk, a species that has learned to thrive among highrise buildings, traffic, and rushing pedestrians. A related series of works on paper rhythmically repeat a found image of cartoon birds, slowly enveloping them in malignant geometric growth. Drawing out an open-ended and fluid relationship between sound and image, Carel’s project explores parallel themes of extinction and regeneration, as well the endless mutation and overarching demise of Modernism’s ideals.
Similarly, The Museum of Commerce evolves, devolves, recycles, explores and experiments as a shape-shifting work of art. The Museum lives, its persistence revealed through traces which shape, or burden, each manifestation in the present. Change and scale are not predetermined, but rather develop as a complex response to the influence of particular individuals, forces from the local environment, new tangents, politics, life…
Sari Carel received her MFA from Hunter College, NY in 2001 and her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem in 1996. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and venues such as Artists Space, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Dumbo Arts Festival in New York, and Tavi Dresdner and The Heder Gallery in Tel Aviv. Most recently she has received grants and residency fellowships from Bundanon Trust, Australia, Atlantic Center for the Arts,Florida, and Socrates Sculpture Park, NY.
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Schedule
from March 07, 2013 to March 24, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-03-07 from 18:00 to 20:00