membership / artist member
Karen Knorr
http://www.karenknorr.com
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biography
Karen Knorr, an American, was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and raised in San Juan Puerto Rico in the 1960s. She finished her education in Paris and London.
Karen has taught and lectured internationally including The University of Westminster, Goldsmiths College, Harvard and The Art Institute of Chicago. Karen Knorr studied at the University of Westminster in the mid-1970’s exhibiting photography that addressed debates in cultural studies and film theory concerning the "politics of representation" practices which emerged during the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Karen Knorr is currently Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts at Farnham, Surrey.
statement
In her series 'Fables' (2004-2008) photographs mixes analogue and digital photography playfully reconfiguring tales (Ovid, Aesop La Fontaine) with popular culture (Disney and Attenborough) in museums and heritage sites which include Carnavalet Museum, the Museum of Hunt and Nature in Paris, Chambord Castle and the Conde Museum in Chantilly Castle.
The visuality of these photographs is rich with reference to the baroque. In the last section of the work, Knorr interrogated the free flowing space of modern architecture in Corbusier’s Villa Savoye reintroducing life into the modernist aesthetic of a building.
Since her life-changing journey to Rajasthan in 2008, Karen Knorr’s new series 'India Song' explores Rajput and Mughal cultural heritage and its relationship to questions of feminine subjectivity and animality. This series of carefully crafted photographs explores the past and its relation to India’s contemporary heritage sites across Rajasthan.
related links
http://www.jameshymangallery.com/pages/artist/14489/karen_knorr.html
http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?G=&gid=162052&which=&aid=621628&ViewArtistBy=online&rta=http://www.artnet.com
exhibitions
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ARTfutures 2007
7th March — 12th March 2007Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD -
ARTfutures 2008
6th March — 12th March 2008Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD
Karen Knorr The Witness 2010
Karen Knorr The Maharaja's Apartment, Udaipur City Palace 2010
Karen Knorr Flight to Freedom, Durbar Hall, Dungarpur 2010
Karen Knorr The Maharaja's Apartment, Udaipur City Palace 2010
Karen Knorr Conqueror of the World, Podar Haveli, Nawalgarh 2010
Karen Knorr Avatars of Devi, Zanana, Samode Palace 2010
Karen Knorr The Private Audience, Aam Khas, Junha Mahal, Dungarpur 2010
Karen Knorr The Queen's Room, Zanana, Udaipur City Palace 2010
Karen Knorr The Peacemaker, Jaipur Palace 2010
Karen Knorr Light of the World, Zanana, Nawalgarh 2010
