Karen Paulina Biswell is the daughter of Colombian parents who emigrated to Paris to escape the extreme political repression of the early 1990s. Her diverse body of work, which continually defies definition, focuses on themes such as morality, vulnerability and human fate. Motivated by a profound interest in the extreme states and depths of the human mind and experience, Biswell examines lesser-known aspects of contemporary life and the invisible and challenging elements of society today.

She has recently held exhibitions at Espacio 23 Miami, Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Perez Collection; the Momenta Biennale de l’Image in Montreal, and the A4 Art Museum in Chengdu, China, and her work features in the public and institutional collections of the Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, France; Museo del Banco de la República, Colombia; Pérez Art Museum in Miami, Colección Jorge M. Pérez; and Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, France.

Ca eivissenc. Photography. C-print hand made. 110 x 110 cm. 2016.

The artist often focuses on themes of morality, vulnerability and destiny, while remaining committed to capturing hidden aspects of life today, invisible or unknown elements that she perceives through a deep interest in extreme states, human experience and by the depth of the mind. The photographic series that Biswell made in residence are nourished by this sensitivity, stimulated by the new context of the island, to analyze the ancestral and mystical character of Ibiza based on a series of images that she works as magical symbols.