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Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Conjectures, a solo exhibition by Moroccan-American, Gary, Indiana-based artist Manal Kara. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.
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Manal KaraThe supermarket creeps up to menace us, 2022ceramic, photographic prints on fabric27 x 28 x 4 in
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Utilizing materials such as printed fabrics, wire, chain, hair, pins, and found objects, Kara attaches photographic imagery to forms made of glazed ceramic, establishing window-like arrangements that function as incomplete field notes, guides, or memory maps to lived experience.
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Manal KaraAging grist population at the desiring-production mill fails to unionize whilst chaff has a pint with its m8s down the local, 2022ceramic, photographic prints on fabric23 x 28 x 4 in
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Manal KaraComparative Vasculature, 2022ceramic, photographic prints on fabric, snake roadkill, resin41 x 27 x 4 in
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Manal KaraHolobiont, 2022ceramic, photographic prints on fabric43 x 24 x 4 in
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Kara’s work sublimates an anthropocentric view of the universe, shedding human exceptionalism and portraying a myriad of entanglements with our surroundings. At the heart of this action of gathering words, images, and objects is the artist’s rejection of the idea that humans and nature are fundamentally separate from each other—that this flattened dichotomy of humans as superior and disconnected from nature is false.
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Conjectures makes the viewer implicit in the construction, destruction, and adaptation of our environment. Quoting cultural critic Edward Said, Kara reshares, “Our characteristic mode, then, is not a narrative, in which scenes take place seriatim, but rather broken narratives, fragmentary compositions, and self-consciously staged testimonials, in which the narrative voice keeps stumbling over itself, its obligations, its limitations.”
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Manal Kara: Conjectures
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