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 at work. It is a representation and also an environment wherein the visitor is introduced. At the fault line between the abstract and the figurative, a special form of landscape painting art is created, mostly on derelict walls and windowpanes. Using tape, pigments, acrylic paint, and plastic, she evokes geological processes that are in perpetual motion. They intermingle with ribbons of tape which she uses to depict formal elements of the architecture or the structure behind the window.
(Christine Vuegen)
