Karina Kraenzle
Karina Kraenzle is a photo-based artist working in a variety of
media. Her most recent pieces employ old, found photographs, that
are reworked in various ways on paper, canvas or wood. The result
is a melancholy contemplation of photography’s relationship
to the passage of time and the elusive quality of memory. Karina
lives and works in Ottawa and currently shows her work at Blink
Gallery and La Petite Mort Gallery.
Statement
When a photograph is placed in the middle of a painting, the meaning
of each medium is changed a little — perhaps, in part, due
to the fact that each has a different relationship to time. One
is a record of a brief, unconscious moment addressed to no one in
particular; while the other is a deliberate, conscious appeal to
a future spectator. Juxtaposed, they comment on one another in interesting
ways — many of which I have yet to discover.
We’re here and then wešre gone — our presence in a fast-paced,
technology-driven world appears to us to be more fleeting than ever.
And many of the images that we see around us reflect that perspective
on our existence. I combine media in ways that are meant to address
these issues of flux and loss, and the ways in which we seek to
preserve time and record our presence — thereby helplessly
confirming our absence.
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