The motifs in Karin Broos’ pictorial world are few, prosaic and recurring. Standing and sitting figures at a bathing jetty. Naps in beds and sofas. Women and children in front of the bathroom mirror. In the seemingly uneventful, meaningful moments and moods that generally escape our attention are captured.
Karin Broos’ works often appear seductively idyllic. She doesn’t fear the beauteous and bright. At the same time, the main sentiment is melancholy. Her paintings are colored by perceptions of grief and our dark modern age.
The sense of loss is sometimes utter. Beauty and mortality are often seen as contradictory phenomenon. In Karin Broo’s paintings, they exist as two sides of the same coin. There is always beauty in the perishable and perishability in the beautiful. Death and life, loss and comfort, despair and hope live side by side. The black sun of melancholy shines over the paintings, and a warm light flows from within.
Black Sun is Karin Broos most extensive exhibition to date and includes several new works that have never before been shown to the public. In conjunction with the exhibition, the book Karin Broos, Moments of Lifeis being published. The book contains texts by Karin Broos, poetry by poet Jila Mossaed and a conversation between Karin Broos and Isak Nilson, Deputy Director of Liljevalchs. The book is produced by Bonnier Fakta and Liljevalchs.
Karin Broos was born in Uppsala in 1950 and has lived in Östra Ämtervik in Värmland since 1975.
