The motifs in Karin Broo’s visual world are few, everyday and recurring. Standing and seated figures at a bathing jetty. Naps in beds and sofas. Women and children in front of the bathroom mirror. In the seemingly uneventful, significant moments and moods are captured that normally escape our attention. Karin Broo’s works often look seductively idyllic. She is not afraid of the fair and bright. At the same time, the basic tone is melancholic. The painting is colored by feelings of sadness and a night-black contemporary. The sense of loss is sometimes total. Beauty and impermanence are often seen as contradictory phenomena. In Karin Broo’s painting, they exist like two sides of the same coin. There is always beauty in the impermanent and impermanence 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, a warm light flows from within.
Svart sol is Karin Broo’s most extensive exhibition to date and contains several new works that have never before been shown to the public.
In connection with the exhibition, the book Karin Broos, Ögonblick av liv med texter by Karin Broos, lyrics by the poet Jila Mossaed and a conversation between Karin Broos and Isak Nilson, deputy art gallery director at Liljevalchs, will be published. The book is produced by Bonnier Fakta and Liljevalchs.
Karin Broos was born in 1950 in Uppsala and has lived in Östra Ämtervik, Värmland since 1975
