Karen Vermeren
Vermeren challenges traditional notions of landscape painting. She uses geological landscapes featured by dismemberment, fragmentation and fault lines. The porous material shows itself as fluid, in process. A breaking out, tectonic folding, highly dynamic landscape is brought into the seclucion of a space. The work can be read as a case of reverse geology, as it does not read time backwards, into deep geological time of the past, but forward. And it herewith poses the pretty urgent question of how artists can creatively and critically respond to a changing geologic now.
