Kara Springer

Kara Springer is particularly concerned with armature—the underlying structure that holds the flesh of a body in place. She works with photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions to explore systems of structural support through engagement with architecture, urban infrastructure, and systems of institutional and political power. Her practice is fundamentally rooted in processes of care and tending - in being attune to the specificities of a given context and environment in order to better understand how a structure might live sustainably in relationship to the world around itself. She is interested in the question of how one might at times agitate a broken system, and at others endeavor to heal, to reconstitute new forms out of the broken pieces of a structure, a system, a body, a place.