FABLES IN PHOTOGRAPHY

Photographer: Karen Knorr- Fables Series

"Karen Knorr’s most recent series is entitled Fables, but the morals of the individual images are not immediately apparent. The colour Lamda prints, staged in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, feature classic animal characters: the cunning fox, the foolish pigeon, the parsimonious squirrel and the pesky rat. Yet these creatures—borrowed from a taxidermist’s shop rather than a zoo—are not doing much to move a narrative along. Rather than earning some kind of humiliating comeuppance, these intruders are mostly sitting or standing quietly. Their gazes draw us into the highly loaded recessive space and provide an allegory for the way we look at this strange rarefied world of culture and at the photographs themselves."

xo ll


quote and photos via karen knorr and musée carnavalet.