Reference to the Classics I

The Music Room & The Passage

Karen Knorr has been making photographs since the early 1980s, using a documentary style that recalls earlier traditions of portraiture and painting. One of Karen Knorr's recent series explores the famously austere minimalism of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye. This house, once built for wealthy patrons now luxuriates in its pristinely maintained, empty state as a museum of high culture. Unexpectedly, these spaces are occupied not by the foreseen human subjects but by birds, in playful transgression of the sanctity of this museum space.