Kara Uzelman
dal 25/5/2010 al 11/6/2010
Segnalato da
25/5/2010
Kara Uzelman
Le commissariat, Paris
'If you receive this, you will soon back in glory' was the first message dispatched by Claude Chappe through a line of semaphore towers from Brulon to Parce, France in 1791. Taking as its starting point the height of the French Revolution the series of kinetic sculptures draws on the architecture, aesthetics and technology associated with the transmission of signs and signals.
'If you receive this, you will soon back in glory' was the first message dispatched by Claude Chappe through a line of semaphore towers from Brulon to Parce, France in 1791. Taking as its starting point the height of the French Revolution this series of kinetic sculptures draws on the architecture, aesthetics and technology associated with the transmission of signs and signals.
Using scavenged materials and survivalist building techniques the works include cobbled together radios, antennas, signs and signals. Touching on certain social phenomenon associated with these technologies such as rebellion, renegade communications and populist movements, the work as a whole manifests the intrinsic mysticism affiliated with the immateriality of wireless transmissions and electromagnetic waves.
K. U.
We acknowledge the funding support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
With the collaboration of Mains d'OEuvres, St Ouen and the gallery Sommer and Kohl, Berlin.
Le commissariat is supported by the Ministry of Culture, DRAC Île-de-France.
Opening on the 26th of May at 6.30pm.
Le commissariat
13ter, rue Ternaux - Paris
open Wednesday-Saturday 2-8pm, and on appointment
free admission