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.

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