LOT 136
| Technique | Ink on paper |
| Size | 101 x 143 cm |
| Availability | Available |
| Donation | 50% |
| Pickup | 69 Chestnut Avenue South |
In her drawings, Karen Russo’s explorations of the darker side of human experience open onto scenes of occult happenings, uncontrollable
impulses and mysterious, enigmatic landscapes and exploit the way drawing can summon up hybrid worlds. Everything in Russo’s drawings remains a question hostile to answers, depicting a world itself hostile to comfort or welcome; This is not a place for reason or rationality, but speaks of every dark and irrational drive, that spans centuries, and lurk at the edges of human culture and civilisation.
About Karen Russo
Karen Russo (b. 1974, Tel-Aviv) is an artist based in London. Russo’s work uses document and narrative in an exploration of how knowledge, perception, and culture intertwine the rational with the obscure. By tracing marginalized practices, obscure phenomena and esoteric forms of knowledge she addresses the legacy of transgressive means for understanding the unseen and the unknown.
Russo’s work has been exhibited in venues including Barbican Centre; Hayward Gallery; Tate Modern; Towner Eastbourne; Delfina; Kino Kino Centre for Contemporary Art, Sandnes; Busan Biennial; Große Kunstschau Museum, Worpswede; Haus der Kulturen Der Welt, HKW Berlin; Krefeld Museum, Krefeld; Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; CCA Tel-Aviv, Hertzliya Museum, Petach-Tikva Museum and more.
Her films have been screened in festivals such as Oberhausen, Ann Arbor, EMAF, Uppsala, Kassell to name a few.
Recent awards include: Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2025; Special Mention Award, Oberhausen Film Festival, 2021; Ostrovsky Family Award for Best Experimental Film, Jerusalem Film Festival, 2021, Award for an Established Video Artist, Ministry of Culture, 2018; She is a Film London Jarman Award Nominee, 2023.
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