KATES-FERRI PROJECTS is delighted to announce that multidisciplinary artist KARO KUCHAR is the Artist in Residence for the month of May!

Karo will be crating a new body of work for her first solo exhibition in New York City titled, “Traveling Within Spaces” on view at The B-Side of Kates-Ferri Projects until June 30, 2024.

Please join us for the reception on Thursday, May 30th 6-8pm at The B-Side of Kates-Ferri Projects 563 Grand Street, NY 10002.

Artist Statement: My artistic approach is based on the idea of a symbiosis between body and space in the widest sense of both of these terms. One focus lays in the different concepts of skin as a shell or the shell as a second skin, as well as the body as an architectural structure. My research revolves around utopian worlds of bodies, spaces and materiality. At the same time it includes a critical examination of society, as well as of (legal) aspects of art and the economic market.

Since 2016 I have been “flaying” old empty buildings or construction sites from the inside. I transfer everything that accumulated over the years to fragile transparent fabrics. Wallpaint, filler, dirt...Those fabrics with layers of old wall surfaces often form the base or inspiration for my future works. I am constantly exploring old buildings searching for new material and I always try to develop my technique and approach to express my ideas in many different ways. It is the history of those walls that determines the structures on the fabrics. The coincidence and the nature of the spaces play a major role.

Follow Artist on Instagram @karokuchar