Karen Tronel
Bérenger, 2023
Oil on canvas
70 x 60 cm
27 1/2 x 23 5/8 in
27 1/2 x 23 5/8 in
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Karen Tronel is a British and French artist who lives and works in London. She studied Fine Art at UAL and graduated with an MA Fine Art from Chelsea College...
Karen Tronel is a British and French artist who lives and works in London. She studied Fine Art at UAL and graduated with an MA Fine Art from Chelsea College in 2018.
Her practice spans a range of artistic processes including painting, sculpture, large-scale installation and moving image, combining a variety of materials, narratives, mediums, and techniques.
Tronel’s work is underpinned by a potentiality for radical forms that shape our social and imaginary existence, yet, they remain irrational, non–sensical, awkward and often absurd. Humour is deployed with an estranged familiarity to everyday indifference, whereby the experience is aligned to a soft-grotesque form of discovery; an ongoing fascination dedicated to the shared complex experiences of people, bodies, and organs. Working through a self–authored script, Tronel creates individual environments of objects, images and conversations that may be constructed as unfamiliar, yet find space and momentum to raise questions, expand on language, behavioural cues, and slanted perceptions.
Her practice spans a range of artistic processes including painting, sculpture, large-scale installation and moving image, combining a variety of materials, narratives, mediums, and techniques.
Tronel’s work is underpinned by a potentiality for radical forms that shape our social and imaginary existence, yet, they remain irrational, non–sensical, awkward and often absurd. Humour is deployed with an estranged familiarity to everyday indifference, whereby the experience is aligned to a soft-grotesque form of discovery; an ongoing fascination dedicated to the shared complex experiences of people, bodies, and organs. Working through a self–authored script, Tronel creates individual environments of objects, images and conversations that may be constructed as unfamiliar, yet find space and momentum to raise questions, expand on language, behavioural cues, and slanted perceptions.