Down the Rabbit Hole
Simon Fuh
Kara Uzelman

March 7 – April 4, 2020

Opening: Saturday, March 7, 1 to 4pm

Hours: Saturdays only 1 to 4pm or by appointment

Down the Rabbit Hole features work by Simon Fuh and Kara Uzelman.

The first of Fuh’s works, "Imagine a Future You'd Actually Like to Exist In", consists of videos of hip hop and krump dancers from Scarborough, ON listening to a futurist disco song while meditating on that prompt. The dancer's "future imaginings" are experienced by the viewer in the form of minute body language produced while they listen. Alongside the videos will be a series of wall drawings based on images found on the internet that straddle the line between blissful utopia, and a more sinister dystopia

Uzelman’s recent photo-based prints, made from un-cropped, full or partial sections of scanned film, reveal aspects of their making: seriality, movement, and time. Collected Rocks Number One consists of nine scanned rolls of 35mm film documenting rocks of varying sizes and origins amassed in her studio, collected over many years of walking, digging and moving around. Pocket Change records her hand provisionally manipulating accumulated objects extracted from her pocket. Alongside these film-based photo prints, are clay-based casts that re-organize the accumulated stuff into conglomerate forms such as Garden Potatoes and Thrift Store Coat Hanger. Through processes of removal - photographing and casting - the selected works re-negotiate accumulated things, while considering the original objects and their origins.

Left image: Kara Uzelman, Detail from Collected Rocks, Roll 01, Zoom, Inkjet on paper, 2013/2020

Simon Fuh is an artist from Regina, SK currently working out of Toronto. He has exhibited across Saskatchewan and Ontario, and in France and Taiwan. At times, he works with artist Kenneth Jeffrey Kwan Kit Lau, including a project in Summer 2019 at Bunker 2 (Toronto, ON), and for an upcoming exhibition at Forest City Gallery (London, ON). Simon is a co-founder of 11th Avenue Expo in Regina, and worked collaboratively as an artist/curator for the project Ibid.

Kara Uzelman’s work has been included in DIY exhibitions, artist run centers, museums, commercial galleries and art fairs across Canada and Europe including Remai Modern, Saskatoon; The Power Plant, Toronto; Le Commissariat, Paris; Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin; Mercer Union, Toronto; and The Vancouver Art Gallery. She has received numerous awards, and has attended residencies at The Klondike Institute of Art (Dawson City, CA), Triangle (Marseille, FR), Mains D'oevres (Paris, FR), Mercer Union (Toronto, CA), The Bruno Arts Bank (Bruno, CA) and Les Ateliers des Arques (Les Arques, FR). Uzelman currently lives and works in Nokomis, Saskatchewan.

The artists wish to acknowledge the support of the Saskatchewan Arts Board.

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