Karen Asher and the delirious absurdity of life
Karen Asher is an analog photo artist from Winnipeg, Canada, whose work explores her obsession with stress, absurdity and the human condition. She received her BFA Honours in photography from the University of Manitoba in 2009.
Asher has shown her work internationally, and is featured in Flash Forward – Emerging Photographers from Canada, United Kingdom and the United States as well as the book Front Line: Interviews with International Contemporary Photo-Based Artists. She is currently experimenting with video, and likes to wander the streets aimlessly for ideas.
About ‘The Full Catastrophe‘:
The Full Catastrophe encompasses the all-consuming chaos of life — the highs and the lows, the beautiful and the bizarre, the delirious absurdity of it all. The photographs treat the movement, gesture, abstraction, and exchanges of bodies sculpturally, using equal parts humour and horror to dive into the human condition. The series was inspired by a personal crisis, but soon moved beyond the complexity of my own experience to explore how we all live inside a catastrophe of one kind or another.
