KAREN KNORR

On view for the first time in New York are select works from Knorr’s brand-new series Scavi, set amid the stunning architectural heritage sites of southern Italy. The exhibition also features recent additions to India Song and Fables alongside historical analog photographs from Knorr’s groundbreaking work from the 1980s and ‘90s.

Throughout her nearly fifty-year career, Knorr has used photography as a method of critical inquiry employing the opulent palaces of India, monuments of Western Europe and the great houses of Britain to frame issues of power rooted in cultural heritage. Rendered in brilliant colour and sumptuous detail, Knorr’s images provoke pointed questions about class, gender, colonialism, exoticism and representation in art and history.

‘For this exhibition, I chose to focus on these series in particular because they all have connections and intersections,’ Knorr says. ‘The work examines systems of power that create inequalities and the ways in which the ‘other’ — animals, women, people of colour — disrupt those power structures.’