Description

In the gallery’s small room, Karen Trask offers us a series of artist’s books where a reflection on the materiality of the object and our relationship to it is developed. The language and the image are found there, but the material qualities of the supports draw and hold our attention to what gives substance to these representations. Curiously, words and images acquire an increased virtuality. Starting from the book, this work, in its astonishing simplicity, takes us back to its vegetal origin and introduces the tree as a motif. But this tree, even if it is materially present in different forms, is also crossed by language. Conversely, language, although strongly inscribed in the material, retains all its evocative power. Objects come to us in different appearances and imply different relationships. They are sometimes sculptures to look at and involve displacement,

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Publications

Du statique au dynamique : Projets photographiques pour le Web
Sylvie Parent (2007). Ciel variable, (Issue 76), juin 2007, pp. 26-27.
Karen Trask: Touch Wood-Touchez du bois
Julia Blushak (2003). Espace Sculpture, (64), 41-42.
Touch wood
Christine Redfern (2003). Montreal Mirror, August 28-September 3 2003

Article about exhibition, Touch Wood Vieux-Palais, St-Jérôme

Artists turn over a new page
Elaine Hujer (2002). The Hamilton Spectator, June 1, 2002

Article about the exhibition, Touch Wood, Burlington, Ontario

Regards sur l’art Web au Québec: Quinze œuvres québécoises commentées et mises en perspective dans la courte histoire du Web
Sylvie Parent (2001). Magazine électronique du Centre International d’art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC), Volume 14, October 2001.
Toucher du bois Touch Wood
Karen Trask (2000). Galerie B312, Montréal, Québec, cahier #47, 5 p.

Toucher du bois Touch Wood is a text written by the artist to accompany the exhibition of the same name.

Parenthesis () Parentheses
Karen Trask (2000). self published, 13 pages.

Ephemera

Exhibition Webpage Screen Captures
Exhibition installation shots from B-312 archive