Sari Carel is a, multi-disciplinary artist based in New York. Carel’s work has been exhibited and screened internationally in venues such as Artists Space, Dumbo Arts Festival, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York; LAX Art and Young Projects in Los Angeles; Genia Schreiber University Gallery in Tel Aviv, and Haifa Museum of Art in Israel and Locust Projects in Miami. Most recently her work appeared in the A.I.R. Gallery Biennial curated by Prem Krishnamurthy and Sarah Demuese in Brooklyn, and at Melanie Flood Projects in Portland, OR. Her public art commissions have appeared in City-Hall Park, Manhattan, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Her largest public art project to date will open in Boston later this year. In my practice I work across media including sound, moving image, sculpture and collage, as I delve into alternative relationships between sound, image and audience. In her work Sari investigates the myriad representations of nature and ecology and their relationship to the built environment, while dealing with the aesthetic and ideological remnants of modernism and the avante-garde. She looks closely at extinct species and the cultural products they leave behind them as well as ones called domesticated, and plant life all around us. Her projects are often informed by extensive research into diverse fields such as environmental history, ornithology and the history of recorded sound. Each project starts with a long research phase and often involves collaboration with scholars and practitioners from other fields. Materiality and form are a crucial element of the work, and a project evolves in the studio space as much as outside of it. Weaving aesthetic inquiry with activism and care is an important part of her work process. Working with obsolete technologies such as the phonautograph, reel-to-reel tape and renaissance instruments, her oeuvre also includes performative events and actions that use her sound work and installations as a readymade environment that is layered with live compositions, together with musicians, and communities outside the art world. These hybrid events employ chance and collage strategies via sound, classical, and experimental music. For more information on her multidisciplinary work visit her website.