Upcoming Exhibitions
Fables at Carnavalet Museum, Paris
This coming spring 2010, the Carnavalet museum will be inhabited by a strange fauna. Fox, tortoise, hare and stork pose for Karen Knorr’s lens in the XVIII century period rooms of the museum, bringing to life the fables of Aesop and La Fontaine.
The museum pays homage to American/British photographer Karen Knorr, of international renown, who will present 15 photographs throughout the period rooms.
Some of the photographs will be placed in the rooms where they were taken in 2003/2004 and others will be exhibited in the gallery on the first floor of the museum. Additional photographs taken in the Conde Museum at Chantilly and the rooms of the Museum of Hunt and Nature will augment the selection. For this occasion Deyrolle will be lending taxidermised animals from their collection. These animals will be placed throughout the first floor, adding a touch of bucolic lyricism to the museum rooms.
In Karen Knorr’s work, animals roam among the furniture and artworks of the ‘cultural sanctuaries’ which exist to elevate culture from desecration by animal nature. This transgression conjures up the marvelous universe of Lewis Caroll and Angela Carter. The unsettling aspect of these photographs resides in the construction of the images mixing analogue with digital photography. It is this ambiguity between the different discordant realities and spatial registers that troubles the observer’s gaze.
Karen Knorr’s bestiary invites the visitor to rediscover one of the most beautiful museums and hotel particuliers in the Marais neighborhood of Paris.
Opens Tues 9 February 4pm to 9pm
Exhibition continues to 30 May 2010
Museo de Fotografia Contemporanea, Milano
From May 2010
Museo Fotografia Contemporanea
Fables at Carnavalet
Fables will be travelling back to Carnavalet Museum, Paris, opening February 9, 2010
Upcoming exhibitions
2009 Fables Musée Muncipale d’Art de la Roche sur Yon, France (Solo/Oct 17-Jan 9 2010)
2010 Fables Musée Carnavalet, Paris (Solo/February 9–May 2010)
2010 Fables Centre Photographique, Toulon, France (Solo/October 25-Jan 15 2011)