Inherent Beauty Opens at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Singapore

Inherent Beauty: Photographers Who Change How We See the World
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 9 October – 21 November

Head to Sundaram Tagore for an exhibition of work by six world-renowned photographers. They deeply engage with the environment and contemporary social issues. Each of them create compelling visual narratives that explore our shared humanity and convey the beauty in diversity and in the natural world.

Sebastião Salgado and Steve McCurry share a photojournalistic approach, recording human struggle and the impact of conflict and globalisation. Karen Knorr’s intricate images use ancient myths and allegories to frame issues of entrenched social constructs. Lalla Essaydi and Robert Polidori explore the human condition through intimate examinations of spaces, both real and symbolic. Edward Burtynsky photographs industrial landscapes around the world, showing the devastating impact of manufacturing and human consumption.

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Photo London Digital

Photo London Digital, 7–18 October

Karen Knorr is exhibiting a number of works as part of Photo London Digital with Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Danziger Gallery, Augusta Edwards Fine Art and HI-NOON. Knorr’s up-coming monograph Questions (After Brecht) will be launched online by publisher GOST Books. Photo London Digital is the first international photography fair online and will take place on a platform built by the Fair’s digital partner, Artsy, and accessible both from the Photo London website and Artsy’s.

Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad, Founders of Photo London, comment: ‘Photo London Digital builds on the outstanding achievements of the first five editions of the Fair that have created an unparalleled annual international photography event in London – the much-heralded Photo London week. As ever, our exhibitors and the artists that they will showcase over the fourteen days of the Fair, lie at the heart of Photo London. No matter where they come from our exhibitors present a stunning roster of brilliantly innovative artists and works – from the early experiments with the medium to the masters of the form and beyond them to contemporary work that pushes at the boundaries of photography’

Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Established in 2000, Sundaram Tagore Gallery is devoted to examining the exchange of ideas between Western and non-Western cultures.

Danziger Gallery
Danziger Gallery is a fine art photography gallery that represents many prominent contemporary and 20th century photographers.

Augusta Edwards Fine Art
Specialising in classical 20th century and contemporary photography with a specific emphasis on British documentary photography from the 1970s-1980s, pre and post war European photography and Latin American photography from the 1940s-1950s.

HI-NOON
HI-NOON is an artist-led enterprise, that presents editioned artworks by a diverse selection of leading and emerging artists.

GOST Books
Founded in 2013, GOST Books is an independent visual arts and photography publisher based in London. GOST publishes a small roster of approximately 8 books a year of diverse subject matter and design, making an uncategorisable output a trademark of GOST.

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Photo London Digital

Photo London Digital, 7–18 October

Karen Knorr is exhibiting a number of works as part of Photo London Digital with Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Danziger Gallery, Augusta Edwards Fine Art and HI-NOON. Knorr’s up-coming monograph Questions (After Brecht) will be launched online by publisher GOST Books. Photo London Digital is the first international photography fair online and will take place on a platform built by the Fair’s digital partner, Artsy, and accessible both from the Photo London website and Artsy’s.

Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad, Founders of Photo London, comment: ‘Photo London Digital builds on the outstanding achievements of the first five editions of the Fair that have created an unparalleled annual international photography event in London – the much-heralded Photo London week. As ever, our exhibitors and the artists that they will showcase over the fourteen days of the Fair, lie at the heart of Photo London. No matter where they come from our exhibitors present a stunning roster of brilliantly innovative artists and works – from the early experiments with the medium to the masters of the form and beyond them to contemporary work that pushes at the boundaries of photography’

Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Established in 2000, Sundaram Tagore Gallery is devoted to examining the exchange of ideas between Western and non-Western cultures.

Danziger Gallery
Danziger Gallery is a fine art photography gallery that represents many prominent contemporary and 20th century photographers.

Augusta Edwards Fine Art
Specialising in classical 20th century and contemporary photography with a specific emphasis on British documentary photography from the 1970s-1980s, pre and post war European photography and Latin American photography from the 1940s-1950s.

HI-NOON
HI-NOON is an artist-led enterprise, that presents editioned artworks by a diverse selection of leading and emerging artists.

GOST Books
Founded in 2013, GOST Books is an independent visual arts and photography publisher based in London. GOST publishes a small roster of approximately 8 books a year of diverse subject matter and design, making an uncategorisable output a trademark of GOST.

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Auction and Print Sale For Chiswick House & Gardens Trust

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, Chiswick House & Gardens have seen a 60% reduction in income. To off-set the deficit, an auction is planned as the culmination of #welovechiswickhouse campaign which aims to raise £120,000 over 120 days by the end of the summer. Art works include donations from Chiswick residents Sir Peter Blake and Marthe Armitage and Karen Knorr.

Karen Knorr is delighted to be donating ‘Contemplation of the Essential Forms’ a signed work photographed in Chiswick House, as part of a series of 17 large scale Cibachrome photographs Karen completed in 1986 alluding to received ideas of beauty and taste in British culture. Titled Connoisseurs, the series was also shot at five locations: Osterley House, Sir John Soane’s Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum as well as Chiswick House.

The auction will take place onsite and online on Saturday 26th September from 15:00, with the auction live-streamed via chiswickauctions.co.uk. Head of Paintings & Fine Art at Chiswick House & Gardens, Adrian Biddell will step up to the rostrum, auctioneering off the fantastic lots. For information about all of the lots available please visit the online catalogue or Chiswick House & Gardens’ website.

Karen Knorr Instagram: Small Connoisseurs Prints To Be Sold For Chiswick House

To further support Chiswick House & Gardens Trust, Karen Knorr will be making two small limited-edition prints from Connoisseurs available via her Instagram page. Information will be posted via her account @karen1knorr during the week of 21 September in the lead up to the auction on 26 September. It is recommended that you turn on post notifications so that you will be notified as soon as the prints are made available—to do this navigate to Karen’s account and tap “Follow” then tap again where it says “Following” and navigate to “Notifications” to turn on notifications for Posts and Stories.

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Academies Print Available To Support Charity Support in Mind Scotland

Studies for Mind Charity Sale of Photography 

Studies in Photography have organised a sale of photographs to raise money for the charity Support in Mind Scotland who work to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of people affected by serious mental illness including family members, carers and supporters.

Priced at £50 each (+P&P), prints are available from a number of photographers including Susan Derges, David Eustace, Karen Knorr, Garry Fabian Miller, Tom Hunter, Sekai Machache, Wendy McMurdo, Callum Colvin, Margaret Mitchell and many many more! Produced as A4 giclée prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper in an unlimited edition, these prints are only available for one month with 100% of the proceeds going to the charity Support Mind Scotland. For more information  please visit the studiesinphotography website before 24 July.

“Everyone at Support in Mind Scotland is incredibly excited to be involved in this imaginative and unique fundraiser, which will benefit not only our Edinburgh service, The Stafford Centre, but also our work across the country. Huge thanks go to the team at Studies in Photography, as well as all the talented photographers who are taking part and have kindly donated their work. We can’t wait to see the amazing photography on show!”

—Iain Mitchell, Senior Fundraising Officer for Support in Mind

More information can be found here: https://studiesinphotography.com/blogs/news/studies-for-mind-charity-print-sale

About Studies in Photography

Studies in Photography promote and support the work of contemporary and historical photography publishing a biannual printed journal. Studies in Photography serves as the cornerstone of a programme that supports the delivery of lectures, exhibitions, and public engagements with photography in partnership with other institutions, including the National Galleries of Scotland. Studies in Photography is published by The Scottish Society for the History of Photography (SSHoP).

Karen Knorr Prints Available As Part Of #artistsupportpledge

Karen Knorr is releasing small limited edition prints as part of #artistsupportpledge which aims to support artists affected by COVID-19. With every £1000 of sales, artists pledge to support other artists by buying the work of another artist for £200. Please check Karen’s Knorr’s Instagram account @karen1knorr for further details.

Sign the Fast Forward Manifesto

You are encouraged to sign the Fast Forward Manifesto for increased involvement of women in photography: https://manifesto.fastforward.photography

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In Conversation: Karen Knorr, Anna Fox and Sabina Jaskot-Gill

In Conversation: Karen Knorr, Anna Fox and Sabina Jaskot-Gill
Thursday 26 March, 7pm
Frobisher Auditorium 2, Barbican Centre, London.

On 26 March, join photographers Karen Knorr and Anna Fox in conversation, as they discuss the aesthetics and socio-political issues explored in their photography.

Photographers Anna Fox and Karen Knorr sit in conversation with Sabina Jaskot-Gill, Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery. The discussion will explore the aesthetic questions and socio-political issues broached by two important series of work presented in our current exhibition Masculinities: Knorr’s Gentlemen (1981–83) and Fox’s My Mother’s Cupboards and My Father’s Words (2000).

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Exlusive Edition for The Photographers’ Gallery

Exclusive Edition for The Photographers’ Gallery 

The Photographers’ Gallery is pleased to offer a special new Exclusive Edition by Karen Knorr

Colour Pigment Print on Hanhnemühle Fine Art Pearl Paper
Edition of 25
12 x 16”
From £1,000 + vat, unframed

Framing available from £150 + vat

In her series India Song, Karen Knorr celebrates the rich visual culture, the foundation myths and stories of northern India, focusing on Rajasthan and using sacred and secular sites to consider caste, femininity and its relationship to the animal world.

You can read more here.

Our Exclusive Editions offer affordable works by leading contemporary artists and photographers. These prints have been created for The Photographers’ Gallery and have been donated by the artists insupport of our exhibitions programme. Since 2012 we have launched unique works by artists including Edward Burtynsky, Gregory Crewdson and Richard Mosse among many others. This is the second edition that Karen Knorr has generously donated and this particular work raises funds for the swarm earthquake victims in Puerto Rico.

For further information about print sales enquires please visit The Photographers’ Gallery website or contact the Print Sales Team: printsales@tpg.org.uk

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Migrations: Solo Exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Singapore

Karen Knorr: Migrations

21 September–16 November
Sundaram Tagore Singapore
Gillman Barracks

Opening Reception with the Artist: Saturday 21 September, 4–6pm

For her first solo show at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, American/British photographer Karen Knorr presents a specially curated selection of images that explore ideas of migration and multiculturalism. This exhibition brings together several of the artist’s most powerful series, including the acclaimed body of work India Song (2008–2017).

Known for sumptuous imagery of exotic animals digitally fused into opulent architectural settings, Knorr’s work is as multifaceted and culturally diverse as the artist herself. Born in Frankfurt and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Knorr finished her education in Paris before settling in London, where she currently resides. Throughout her career, Knorr has used video and photography as a method of critical inquest, employing opulent palaces, temples, museums and monuments of Asia and Western Europe to frame issues of power and class structure rooted in cultural heritage. Rather than focus  on the dispossessed, Knorr aims her lens at the privileged class, the comparatively few who are in charge.

Knorr will also be showing photographs from Metamorphoses (2014–2018), a series set among the breathtaking villas and palaces of Italy. Additionally, on view will be images from The Lanesborough (2015), a series shot in what used to be a hospital but is now one of the most expensive hotels in the world. Here, Knorr wryly parodies the notion of living well in the most exclusive and aspirational locale in London.

“In photography storytellers have a fundamental role,” says Knorr. “They exist in order to explain our world and our place within it, encouraging us to develop as individuals, to discover meaning, and to teach future generations. They also create argument, discussion and debate about how to live the good life.”

For more information email press@sundaramtagore.com or call +1-212-677-4520.

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India Song at Masterpiece London 2019

Masterpiece London 2019

27 June–3 July
Private View: Wednesday 26 June

South Grounds,
The Royal Hospital Chelsea

Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Stand B17

Masterpiece London (27 June – 03 July 2019) is the unmissable art fair at which visitors can view and buy the finest works of art, design, furniture and jewellery – from antiquity to the present day. The Fair offers an unparalleled opportunity for new and established collectors to discover exceptional works for sale across a range of price points from over 150 international exhibitors and across every major market discipline.

Sundaram Tagore Gallery is devoted to examining the exchange of ideas between Western and non-Western cultures. We focus on developing exhibitions and hosting not-for-profit events that encourage spiritual, social and aesthetic dialogues. In a world where communication is instant and cultures are colliding and melding as never before, our goal is to provide venues for art that transcend boundaries of all sorts. With alliances across the globe, our interest in cross-cultural exchange extends beyond the visual arts into many other disciplines, including poetry, literature, performance art, film and music.

Karen Knorr will be exhibiting a selection of works from her acclaimed long-term series India Song, in which she researched the stories and myths of India photographing animals and placing them in temples and palaces across heritage sites in Uttar Pradesh,  Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharastra blurring boundaries between reality and illusion.

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Punks and Belgravia included in New Order at Sprüth Magers London

New Order

24 July–14 September
Sprüth Magers London

Sprüth Magers presents New Order, an exhibition that surveys identity and image in British art, culture and society between 1976 and 1995. The exhibition originates from a discussion about the cultural status and art historical positioning of Peter Saville’s best-known work for Factory records made in the early 1980s and blurring the boundaries between art, design, pop and product. Karen Knorr will be exhibiting Belgravia (1979–1981) in its entirety as well as vintage prints from the series Punks (1977) made in collaboration with Olivier Richon.

Exhibiting artists include: Angus Fairhurst, Richard Hamilton, Damien Hurst, Gary Hume, Karen Knorr, Sarah Lucas, Olivier Richon, Peter Saville, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Gillian Wearing

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Belgravia included Home Sweet Home at Les Recontres d’Arles

Home Sweet Home 1970–2018: The British Home, A Political History

1 July–22 September
Les Recontres d’Arles

The British’s attachment to their homes has continued to assert itself since the early nineteenth century, becoming an important component of their identity. The English language has invented the words comfort and comfortable, words imported into French because nothing better expressed the link between the well-being of soul and body and the domestic interior. What’s better than the theme of the home, the home so dear to the heart of the British, to highlight the richness, the diversity and the development of photography across the Channel? Home Sweet Home brings together thirty artists of all generations who allow us to share the intimacy and the everyday life of Britain from the 1970s to the present day. A look around the property that sheds light from different angles on the social, cultural and political realities, past and present, of British society. Karen Knorr will be exhibiting the a selection of works from the series Belgravia (1979–1981). 

Curated by Isabelle Bonnet, the exhibition includes: Ed Alcock (1974), Dana Ariel (1983), Keith Arnatt (1930-2008), Laura Blight (1985), Juno Calypso (1989), Natasha Caruana (1983), Mark Cawson (1959-2018), Edmund Clark (1963), John Paul Evans (1965), Anna Fox (1961), Ken Grant (1967), Anthony Haughey (1963), Tom Hunter (1965), Sarah Jones (1959), Peter Kennard (1949), Karen Knorr (1954), Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (1948), Chris Leslie (1974), Stephen McCoy (1956), Michael McMillan (1962), Daniel Meadows (1952), David Moore (1961), Magda Segal (1959), Andy Sewell (1978), David Spero (1963), Eva Stenram (1976), Clare Strand (1973), Colin Thomas (1950), Gillian Wearing (1963). The accompanying publication is published by Éditions Textuel.

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Karen Knorr’s Inclusion in the Summer Exhibition 2019 at the Royal Academy of Arts

Summer Exhibition 2019 at the Royal Academy of Arts

10 June–12 August
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Run without interruption since 1769, the Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open submission art show and brings together art in all mediums – prints and paintings, film, photography, sculpture, architectural works and more – by leading artists, Royal Academicians and household names as well as new and emerging talent. Around 1,200 works will be on display, most of them for the first time.

This year, acclaimed British painter Jock McFadyen RA will take the mantle from Grayson Perry to co-ordinate the 251st Summer Exhibition. Highlights will include an animal-themed ‘menagerie’ in the Central Hall, with works by artists including Karen Knorr, Polly Morgan, Charles Avery and Mat Collishaw. Artist sisters Jane and Louise Wilson RA will curate two galleries, one of which will showcase work exploring light and time. Further artists exhibiting include Jeremy Deller, Marcus Harvey and Tracey Emin RA, and Honorary Academicians Anselm Kiefer, James Turrell and Wim Wenders.

As always, most of the artworks will be for sale with proceeds helping to fund the Academy’s non-profit-making activities, including educating the next generation of artists in the RA Schools. On the occasion of the exhibition, Karen Knorr has produced a small-sized special edition of her work The Queen’s Room from the series India Song. Printed by Knorr herself, the print is 32.5 x 40 cm.

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Panel Discussion at The Lightbox – Fast Forward: Her Stories in Photography

Panel Discussion – Fast Forward: Her Stories in Photography with Karen Knorr, Anna Fox & Jean Wainwright

30 May, from 6pm
The Lightbox, Woking, UK

To coincide with the exhibition Women in Photography: A History of British Trailblazers at The Lightbox, join us for a tour of the exhibition and a panel discussion with Anna Fox and Karen Knorr, chaired by Jean Wainwright. Anna Fox and Karen Knorr are Professors of Photography and Jean Wainwright is Professor of Contemporary Art and Photography at University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Farnham.

The panel will discuss the significance of uncovering hidden histories and of revealing new role models for women photographers. They will also explore what it is to be a female photographer today and why we need to re-evaluate our burgeoning photography histories and ensure that the women are recorded alongside their male counterparts.

The event is in collaboration with Fast Forward Women in Photography at UCA, Farnham.

Free event, pre-booking required via The Lightbox’s website.

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Home Sweet Home at Les Recontres d’Arles 2019

Home Sweet Home – 1970–2017: The British Home, A Political History

July 1–September 22
Maison des Peintres, Les Recontres d’Arles 2019, Arles, France

The British’s attachment to their homes has continued to assert itself since the early nineteenth century, becoming an important component of their identity. The English language has invented the words comfort and comfortable, words imported into French because nothing better expressed the link between the well-being of soul and body and the domestic interior. What’s better than the theme of the home, the home so dear to the heart of the British, to highlight the richness, the diversity and the development of photography across the Channel? Home Sweet Home brings together thirty artists of all generations who allow us to share the intimacy and the everyday life of Britain from the 1970s to the present day. A look around the property that sheds light from different angles on the social, cultural and political realities, past and present, of British society.

Ed Alcock (1974), Dana Ariel (1983), Keith Arnatt (1930-2008), Laura Blight (1985), Juno Calypso (1989), Natasha Caruana (1983), Mark Cawson (1959-2018), Edmund Clark (1963), John Paul Evans (1965), Anna Fox (1961), Ken Grant (1967), Anthony Haughey (1963), Tom Hunter (1965), Sarah Jones (1959), Peter Kennard (1949), Neil Kenlock (1950), Karen Knorr (1954), Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (1948), Chris Leslie (1974), Stephen McCoy (1956), Iain McKell (1957), Michael McMillan (1962), Daniel Meadows (1952), David Moore (1961), John Myers (1944), Martin Parr (1952), Magda Segal (1959), Andy Sewell (1978), David Spero (1963), Eva Stenram (1976), Clare Strand (1973), Colin Thomas (1950), Gee Vaucher (1945), Gillian Wearing (1963)

Exhibition curator: Isabelle Bonnet.
Exposition coproduced by Institut pour la photographie, Hauts-de-France, and the Rencontres d’Arles.
Publication: Home Sweet Home, Isabelle Bonnet, Éditions Textuel, 2019.

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Karen Knorr at Festival La Gacilly – Baden Photo

Karen Knorr at Festival La Gacilly – Baden Photo

June 1–September 30
Baden bei Wein, Austria

From 1 June to 30 September 2019, the Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo brings the world’s best photographers to Baden bei Wien on the theme Hymn to the Earth. Starting at the visitor centre on Brusattiplatz, the Festival winds through the old town of Baden and through Doblhoffpark, Gutenbrunner Park and Kurpark – in two routes of 7 kilometres in total.

In France, each summer, 400 000 people enjoy the largest and most exciting photo festival in Europe. No, not in Paris, but far from any metropolis, in the Breton village of La Gacilly. The outstanding quality of the Festival is what attracts visitors to the remote location. Festival Photo La Gacilly  has now struck off and found a new, second, home in Baden bei Wien. From 1 June to 30 September, the Festival presents nearly 2 000 photographs, some of them on panels up to 280 sqm in size, on a route of 7 kilometres through the parks, lanes and squares of the town, grouped in pictorial narratives created by 38 of the world’s best photographers. In Baden as in La Gacilly entry is free.

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Book of Beasts at Getty Center

Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World

May 14–August 18
Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA

Animals tumble, soar, and race through the pages of the bestiary, a popular type of medieval book describing the beasts of the world. Abounding with vibrant and fascinating images, the bestiary brought real and fantastical creatures to life for readers. So cherished were these vividly imagined beasts, they often “escaped” from manuscripts to inhabit other art works made during the medieval period, and even up to the present day.

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Martin Parr Foundation Seminar: British Photography in the 1980s

British Photography in the 1980s Seminar

Saturday 27 April
Martin Paar Foundation, Bristol, UK

A seminar day celebrating and exploring British photography from the 1980s, one of the most dramatic and prolific decades in post war British documentary work. Speakers include: Anna Fox, Jem Southam, Karen Knorr, Paul Graham and Chris Killip.

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Solo Presentation at Photo London with Sundaram Tagore Gallery

Photo London 2019, Somerset House 

Thursday 16–Sunday 19 May
VIP Preview: Wednesday 15 May

Booth G20
Sundaram Tagore Gallery

Karen Knorr Hons RPS will be presenting solo with Sundaram Tagore Gallery at London Photo 2019 with a selection of works from her seminal photographic series ‘India Song’. The series began with a 2008 road trip across more than 2000 kilometres across northern India. India Song celebrates the rich visual culture, foundation myths and stories of India, focusing on Rajasthan, using sacred and secular sites to consider caste, femininity and its relationship to the animal world. The work is influenced by surrealism and the magic realism of Latin America.

Wild animals of India found in sanctuaries, zoos and cities are photographed, inserted digitally into interiors of palaces, mausoleums, temples and holy sites, interrogating Indian cultural heritage and societal rigid hierarchies. The photographs are painstakingly retouched with photographic images of live animals, and interiors digitally combined fusing two worlds: nature and culture in order to reflect on the fragility of both in the anthropocene. Cranes, zebus, langurs, tigers and elephants mutate from princely pets to avatars of past feminine historic characters, blurring boundaries between reality and illusion and reinventing the Panchatantra for the 21st century.

About Sundaram Tagore Gallery 
Established in 2000, Sundaram Tagore Gallery is devoted to examining the exchange of ideas between Western and non-Western cultures. We focus on developing exhibitions and hosting not-for-profit events that encourage spiritual, social and aesthetic dialogues. In a world where communication is instant and cultures are colliding and melding as never before, our goal is to provide venues for art that transcend boundaries of all sorts. With alliances across the globe, our interest in cross-cultural exchange extends beyond the visual arts into many other disciplines, including poetry, literature, performance art, film and music.

www.sundaramtagore.com

About Photo London 
Photo London was created to give London an international photography event befitting the city’s status as a global cultural capital. Now in its fifth edition, Photo London has established itself as a world-class photography Fair and as a catalyst for London’s dynamic photography community. From the capital’s major museums, to its auction houses, galleries large and small, right into the burgeoning creative communities in the East End and South London, Photo London harnesses the city’s outstanding creative talent and brings together the world’s leading photographers, curators, exhibitors, dealers and the public to celebrate photography, the medium of our time.

www.photolondon.org

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Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival

Old Meets New, the 7th Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival

Outdoor Exhibition 15 February-20 April, 2019
Al Jazirah Al Hamra Old Town, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

The atmospheric and recently restored historic village of Al Jazirah Al Hamra in Ras Al Khaimah is set to be transformed into an open-air gallery, as it plays host to this year’s Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival (RAKFAF). Opening on Valentine’s Day with a theme of Old Meets New the 7th edition of RAKFAF promises to be a cultural, immersive and unique experience not to be missed. An initiative of the Al Qasimi Foundation, the popular festival will present a rich variety of works by local, regional and international artists to be explored and enjoyed, as well as an expanded programme of workshops and activities. The festival is free to the public and will run until February 28, with an extended outdoor art exhibition running until April 20th, 2019.

Karen Knorr will be exhibiting thirteen works from the series ‘India Song’ as part of the outdoor exhibition in the Al Jazirah Al Hamra Old Town.

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Karen Knorr & Kimiko Yoshida – Avatars: The Boundaries Between Illusion & Reality

Karen Knorr & Kimiko Yoshida – Avatars: The Boundaries Between Illusion & Reality  

February 23–March 20, 2019
Holden Luntz Gallery
332 Worth Avenue
Palm Beach, FL 33480
USA

This duo exhibition sees Karen Knorr exhibit for the first time in the USA her large Byobou screens made in Japan from her series Monogatari, a series she has worked on since 2012. In 2017 Knorr was invited into Obai-in temple in Kyoto by artist, calligrapher and head priest Tagen Kobayashi.

Knorr first exhibited her work as free-standing Byobu screens, in a solo exhibition at the Daitoku-ji complex in Obai-in temple in 2018. These screens were made of cedar wood, mulberry, rice paper and silk, and combined with photographs printed on rice paper. The screens were made by local artisan Heiando, in collaboration with Karen Knorr. The photographs are transformed into one-off unique handmade objects with the aid of Japanese master craft techniques. This exhibition at Holden Luntz Gallery in Palm Beach brings together two of these Byobu screens as well as a number of framed photographic prints.

Kimiko Yoshida was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1963. Feeling oppressed as a woman, she left Japan in 1995 and moved to France to pursue her artistic ambitions. Yoshida studied at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles and the Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Le Fresnoy. Her work revolves around feminine identity and the transformative power of art.

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