Heaviest, Heaviest, Heaviest. group exhibition presented by Hammerspace Gallery at Do Not Start, featuring work by filmmaker Seejon Czaplicki, kinetic sculptor Abhishek Narula, designer and installation artist Isabella Werschky and sound artist Nick Buwalda.
In a moment when experience is increasingly flattened and disembodied, the installation insists on physical presence. Understanding does not emerge through observation alone, but through traversal. Meaning is not contained within the object, but produced in the space between body, form, and time. This spatial reality cannot be apprehended in its totality at once.
The work participates in a lineage of sculptural practice from the 1970s that privileged bodily comprehension over explanation. Weight, movement, and duration functioned as primary modes of knowing. What feels urgent now is not a return to those forms, but a question posed from within a digital present that continually compresses:
What is Heaviest?
Seejon Czaplicki
Seejon Czaplicki is a filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles and Grand Rapids, MI.
Born in South Korea and raised between Singapore and the American Midwest, his work engages in dialogues shaped by the duality of the lived experience. He approaches creation as a communal endeavor, a yearning to catharsis and an exploration towards the unique, the temporary, and the beautiful. His projects have screened across the United States and received recognition from the Webbys, Digiday, and Brand Film. He leads System on Objects and is currently in post-production on his debut feature film, Cul De Sac.
Abhishek Narula
Abhishek Narula is an artist and engineer whose work explores the aesthetics of digital and electronic technologies. Through his practice, he seeks to cultivate an alternative discourse around systems where one can moves beyond control and productivity, toward an open-ended engagement with presence, process, and being.
Abhishek was born in New Delhi, India, and currently resides in Ypsilanti, MI. His work has been exhibited at various national and international venues, including Science Gallery Detroit, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia, New Media Caucus (NMC), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. He received his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Isabella Werschky
Isabella Werschky is a film production designer with a growing interest in experiential installations and other temporary spaces. Her work is rooted in curiosity about how environments shape human behavior and a desire to translate abstract ideas into physical form. She aims to create collective moments of reflection and connection through shaping sensory input.
Nick Buwalda
Nick Buwalda is a synth and electronic artist and DJ based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His approach blends a cinematic and narrative aspect to his sonic work. As an artist he performs with the band Ficus and also under the moniker Oracle.