If you missed our review of the impressive album Aurora, I suggest giving it a listen via: //instantfilter.com/2013/07/09/maxwell-demon-aurora/.
As you might have seen above, this is a video to the wonderful track Laidback from the same album. The unhurried perfection of the waves shaping rocks gently over centuries, the trippy patterns created by droplets of rain water on a windshield, the beautiful incompleteness of sail-frames against the setting sun or the sheer brilliance of a firework dazling acrosss the sky; this video captures the beauty of the small things in real life which we somehow don’t notice everyday, unless ofcourse we slow ourselves down or get laidback enough ;). The partly shaky camera work only makes this more endearing, because….. well, my eyes don’t really see the world as stably as the motion free/retina display/ true HD evangelists would have me believe.
Karan Khurana
Karan Khurana ( Born in 1982, Mumbai, India) makes photos and mixed media artworks. By using popular themes such as pointlessness, old monuments and nightlife, Khurana creates intense personal moments by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His photos don’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By applying abstraction, he touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
His works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, he makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of consumer-oriented superabundance and marketing.
His works often refer to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created.
Karan Khurana currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany!
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