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Karen Ami, Witness, 2024, ceramic, mortar, on board
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Karen Ami
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Karen Ami, Twogether, 2024, ink, collage, on paper
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Karen Ami, Berlin Shroud, 2024, ceramic, mortar, on board
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Karen Ami, Origins, 2024, ink, collage, on paper
Exhibition
Karen Ami - Root Fragments
26 Mar 2024 – 30 Mar 2024
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 14:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 14:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 14:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 14:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 14:00 – 18:00
Free admission
In the "Root Fragments" solo exhibition, Chicago-based American interdisciplinary artist Karen Ami presents a group of mosaic artworks, ceramic sculptures, and drawings created during her residency at SomoS Arts in Berlin in the winter of 2024
About
The exhibition emerges from Ami's deep engagement with family brokenness, displacement, and reunion within the historical framing of a post-Holocaust diasporic community.
The making of Ami's mosaics follows a symbolic, almost alchemical process that "pulverizes the past to create a new space for repair, enabling acceptance and growth," as she describes.
In her evocative fusion of personal narrative with broader historical contexts, Karen Ami scrutinizes the fissures left by history, using art as a vehicle for overcoming these disruptions.
"Root Fragments" beckons viewers into a realm of reflection, where the process of reassembling fragments serves as an allegory for insight and endurance amidst adversity.
Opening reception: Tuesday, March 26, 6 -9 pm
On view March 27 - 30, 2024, 2 - 7 pm
