Join Karen Kraven and Jaclyn Bruneau for a live-streamed conversation during the final day of Kraven’s exhibition Lull, on Saturday, May 9 at 1pm.
Karen Kraven’s exhibition Lull has arrived at Latitude 53 in the midst of an unprecedented moment in our recent history, where issues of labour, production and visibility are immensely vital topics to consider. Through her research, Kraven questions what it means to interrupt production, and how to start working again, for the better.
Karen Kraven is a Montreal-based artist working with photography, sculpture and installation. Influenced by her father's (and his father's) knitting factory that stopped manufacturing the year she was born and by the physical and optical properties of textiles, her practice explores the ways clothing registers the body–how the body is unfinished, unstable and under interrogation–pointing to the sustained impact of work, wounds and wear.
Recent solo exhibitions include Dust Against Dust, Parisian Laundry, Montreal (2019), Pins & Needles at the Toronto Sculpture Garden (2018), Deadstock, Maw Gallery, NYC (2017), Flip Flop Punch Front, Mercer Union, Toronto (2015) and Razzle Dazzle Sis Boom Bah presented at the ICA, Portland, Maine and the Darling Foundry, Montreal (2014/5). Her work has also been included in exhibitions in Toronto, Marseille, Mumbai and Baltimore. Reviews have been published in C Magazine, Canadian Art, Momus and Artforum. Karen Kraven is represented by Bradley Ertaskiran in Montreal.
Jaclyn Bruneau is a writer, critic, and the Editor of C Magazine. She has given talks on exhibitions and projects by more than 20 artists, and is currently underway on an inconspicuous yearlong art publishing project in the online classifieds with Natasha Chaykowski and Untitled Art Society called please, teach me to swim.