Karen Paulina Biswell

Karen Paulina Biswell was born to Colombian parents who emigrated to Paris to escape the extreme political violence of the early 90s. Based on her amphibious experience between the western European world and a visual attraction to the reality underlying the romantic rhetoric of indigenous peoples, she constructs a visual universe that generates intense tensions between the historical past, mythical time and contemporary present. The images that Biswell reveals are moments that manifest as a ritual essence; simultaneously, they evoke the classic editorials of fashion publications. Her varied oeuvre – which is consistently defying definition – is drawn to subjects of vulnerability, morality and human fate. She is committed to capturing the lesser-known aspects of contemporary life, society's invisible and defiant elements, taking a deep interest in extreme states and the depths of the human mind and experience.