Karen Kilimnik

published in conjunction with an exhibition of Kilimnik's work at the Kunsthalle, Zurich.
With overheated seductive power and sultry malicious glamour Karen Kilimnik introduces us to the rituals of her second-hand yearnings and her media worship, which she proceeds to dissect in an incomparable mixture of desperate innocence, post-adolescent ingenuity, and voodoo-like humor. ""A world where supermodels converge with the super-richKate Moss and Princess Di become oneand where the adult show more obsessions with wealth and beauty are offset by a childish preoccupation with pedigree dogs, thoroughbred horses and the Pink Panther.""Anna Chapman / The Fac show less