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Photographed with an analog camera over 19 years, Karen Knorr's Connoisseurs & Academies series immerses us in the elaborate world of museums and stately homes, showcasing objects, paintings, connoisseurship, and academic structures. The use of animals as allegorical motifs, first introduced with a chimpanzee as the Genius of the Place, has become a hallmark of Knorr's artistic practice. Connoisseurs (1986-1990) explores grand eighteenth-century British mansions, capturing the cultural tourism and ethically dubious acquisition of antiquities that influenced the era's artistic tastes. These artworks, initially private collections, shaped public galleries and defined aesthetic canons. Extending this exploration, Academies (1994 2004) investigates European art institutions like Paris' »cole des Beaux-Arts and Musee d'Orsay, emphasizing how these academies reinforced white Eurocentric patriarchal views through education and public exhibitions. Both series critically and with humour assess the construction of the art market by powerful, wealthy elites, whose influences persist in contemporary culture.

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Karen Knorr (USA / UK) was born in Germany and grew up in San Juan Puerto Rico in the 1960's. She is a Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK since 2010. She lives and works in London, U.K. Karen Knorr won the V International Photography Pilar Citoler Prize in 2010. She is Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Knorr is an advocate for women in photography and is on the steering committee and joint founder with Professor Anna Fox of Fast Forward Women in Photography https: //fastforward.photography/people/ Knorr was nominated for the Deutsche Börse in 2011 and 2012 and Prix Pictet in 2012, 2018 Karen Knorr's work is included in collections worldwide including MOMAK, Kyoto, Museum Of SFOMA, San Francisco and MFAH, Houston and Folkwang Museum, Essen, Tate Museum, London and Pompidou Museum, France. Her work is represented by Filles du Calvaire (France) Danziger (New York), Holden Luntz (West Palm Beach), Augusta Edwards(UK), White Conduit Projects(UK), Sundaram Tagore (Singapore) Recent exhibitions in the US: India Song, Danziger Gallery, Begamont Art Center, Santa Monica, USA (10 September-5 November 2022) Transmigrations, Sundaram Tagore Chelsea, New York, USA (5 May-4 June 2022) India Song, Danziger Gallery, ADAA, The Art Show, The Armory, New York, USA (2-7 November 2021) Animals 2020-2021, Danziger Gallery, New York, USA (Online, January 2021 Europe and India, DanzigerGallery, New York, USA (April 13-May 25, 2017)

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