Mercer Union is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Montreal-based artist Karen Kraven entitled Flip Flop, Punch Front opening on Friday 29th May 2015. Please join us on Tuesday 7 July at 7PM for an artist talk by Kraven in conversation with Georgina Jackson and Cait McKinney.

Karen Kraven’s works set up unexpected encounters between sculptures and images, uncanny resemblances and misleading juxtapositions. Flip Flop, Punch Front continues Kraven’s interest in sport with an exploration of adornment, performance and conceptions of gender, class, race and nation state. The title of the exhibition refers to specific moves within gymnastics where action, stasis and the ability to push oneself manifests through composed performance. Focusing on excerpted elements of gesture, costume, decorated nails and leotards, and unbridled conviction, Kraven gathers bodily forms and images prompting the question of what is missing from the action.