When creating art on a specific location, artists like Vermeren willingly include themselves in the spatial, material and the historical context of the place. As a result, the concept of temporality invades...Read all
Karen Vermeren connects processes that, deep inside the earth, form the landscape with processes in the construction of society. (...) She couples a specific landscape to a given location where she is...Read all
Karen Vermeren visited last summer the place Pyramids in Spitsbergen, an empty Russian mining town, between mountains and glaciers. Abandoned houses show another time level.
A relationship develops between...Read all
The book is used as an exhibition space. Transparent pages are shaping space. They function as sequels and open up windows to the insides of the volcanic
ridge and the slow process of a fault line. By...Read all
The landscape seems to open up and shift on top of each other. Overlaps, duplications and reflections make the viewer aware of his actual space. Karen Vermeren confronts the viewer with the uncontrollable...Read all
In my work I try to create a paradox between the transparent representation of the landscape and the framework of the exhibition space of the audience. In particular I want to explore the fault line between...Read all
