Artist statment

Everyday life is like Virginia Woolf describes in her books, a collection of moments that are like little lanterns strung together in a candlelight vigil. Moments of idleness, of loneliness, of dreams, yearnings, friends, love, isolation, - moments of the surreal , blurperceived in the real everyday life. Poetry where we suspect no more.It is always a perspection of how one views the world. Perhaps in Tokyo in 2010 this is a reality. My everyday life. I, myself, my friends and the people around us. On weekends and other days ... a stream of unconsiousness from the small breaks that allow us time to dream. My photographic work uses abstract imagery and visualisations of silence, the poetry in everyday life, the life cycles and different perspections of reality and the confusion of realities in the absurd, in a dream or in the surreal. What interests me above all is to create an atmosphere of ambiguity in my photos and to explore what life really means to me.

Exhibitions

2010
silent neighbours
installation at Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China.

2009
silent neighbours- Deutsche Bank Award
photo-booth one year installation Cafe Boonna, Shanghai, China.
photo-booth one year installation Cafe Combine, Tokyo, Japan
Irgendwo und nirgendwo.chika little more Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
group show of the winners of BCCKS/little more book competition.
selected by Nakajima Hideki

2008
Karen geht. irgendwo und nirgendwo. Silo, Saarbrücken, Germany. group show.
Postgraduate Certificate Photography, Central Saint Martin‘s College. group show.
Postgraduate show Central Saint Martin‘s College at Back to the Woods, London.
Postgradute Certificate show, Allumni Monday in the Club of the University of the Arts.