2017 Kolga Tbilisi Photo event: Karen Knorr’s exhibition India Song

British artist, Karen Knorr, exhibited her photographic works at the 2017 Kolga Tbilisi Photo event at the Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in Tbilisi from 10-17 May 2017. The Kolga Tbilisi Photo is an annual photography competition and event (5-17 May).

The group exhibition was called ‘Fauna – Wild Beasts, Sheep & Crocodiles.’ The incredible kingdom of animals – from historic to futuristic was created by Tina Schelhorn. Knorr’s display was called India Song.

Karen Knorr, born in Germany, raised in Puerto Rico, studied in France and England. She has exhibited her works at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The University of Westminster, Goldsmiths, Harvard and The Art Institute of Chicago, and other international galleries. She is currently Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey, England.

Knorr is noted for her ironic and humorous photographs on politics, British conservative values, and architectural interiors. She uses different visual and textual strategies to explore her chosen subject matter that ranges from the family and lifestyle to animal and their representation in the museum context.

Since her journey to Rajasthan, India in 2008, Karen Knorr’s work continues to explore Rajput and Mughal cultural heritage and its relationship to questions of feminine subjectivity and animality. Her exhibition in the 2017 Kolga Photo, India Song, is a series of carefully crafted photographs that explore the past and its relation to India’s contemporary heritage sites across Rajasthan.

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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