Karla Black

Born 1972 in Alexandria (Scotland), she lives and works in Glasgow.

Karla Black produces sculptural works, often made with domestic materials such as Vaseline, flour, sugar, shampoo or clothes. She combines these ingredients in intensive creation sessions, meticulously composing abstract sculptures, by virtue of the materials they comprise, inevitably evoke notions traditionally attached to femininity – motherhood, cooking. With compositions that are rigorous in form and fragile, even transient by virtue of their materials, Black refers to the sculptor Eva Hesse as well as to the work of performance artists such as Carolee Schneemann and Gunter Brus for their ritual dimension.

Les Abattoirs – Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse is housing a selection of her past works, and the artist will also be producing an ephemeral site-specific work.