Artist Feature

Every week an artist is featured whose single image was published by Der Greif. The Feature shows the image in the original context of the series.

Karen Irmers work is conveying existence as a state of permanent transition. Although the pictures were taken in very diverse landscapes, they can never be definitely located. […] Atmospheres of changing light, hardly noticeable transformations, which move from bright to dusky and back again, marking landscapes as atmospheric images of inside worlds, that oppose every applied theoretical reading, of how one ought to look at them, with aesthetic sovereignty and intuitive lightness. In fact, her photographs with all their miraculous imaginative charisma don’t exude any pretence. The artist has in the past years developed a very sensible figurative language in the photographed landscapes wherein a characteristic conundrum is mixed with acknowledgment, readability and perception. You see what you see and at the same time you ask yourself if the viewed has something to do with reality. Or it seems that the eye hasn’t seen the particular thematic subject, but merely the atmosphere that encapsulates this. It is a question whether the seeing in this situation doesn’t uncover actually something self-contradictory, for which one doesn’t have an explanation yet. […] Thomas Elsen, H2 - Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg