Paris Photo
Les filles du calvaire, Booth D32
Grand Palais, Paris
11–15 November 2026

Karen Knorr is delighted to be exhibiting works from the series Academies (1994–2005) at the upcoming Paris Photo with Les filles du calvaire on booth D32. Karen will be present at the fair. In dialogue with works by Todd Hido, Kourtney Roy, and Charles Fréger, the presentation will be structured around the notions of portrait, silhouette, and the staging of presence. These three paradigms, central to each artist’s practice, become the vehicles of an unstable presence—at times clearly embodied, at others only perceptible through light, shadow, or trace. Between apparition, staging, and withdrawal, the works explore the thresholds of the visible and the ways in which the subject is constructed within the image.

Academies interrogates the history of ideas that underpin western aesthetics. Within the spaces of the Royal Academy Schools in London, the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, and the Repin Institute in St Petersburg, Knorr reflects upon the relationship between the production of western art in the academy and the transmission and reproduction of such ideas through the museum. The series explores the foundational myths of European fine art culture and the link to national identity and patrimony.
 

Upcoming

Manchester Art Fair with White Conduit Projects
Manchester Central Convention Complex, Manchester
19–22 November 2026
Booth 114