With Gentlemen, which is as knowing and playfully political as its title suggests, Karen Knorr offers a different kind of questioning gaze, more artfully constructed and quietly thought-provoking. Her quiet portraits and interiors are accompanied by texts that reflect – and parody – the language of power, privilege and patriarchy. It is, as Knorr suggests, the self-serving language of the public school and the Conservative elite. Being born male, then, is, as Knorr suggests, the first privilege from which all others flow. Despite her being granted honorary membership of the Conservative gentlemen’s club, the Carlton, such institutions remain very much a male milieu.

Source: The Guardian October 31, 2016 09:00 UTC