Fables

El Pasaje belongs to Karen Knorr's iconic series Fábulas (2004-2008). In it, the artist combines analog and digital photography, playfully reconfiguring tales (by Ovid, Aesop, La Fontaine, etc.) and fusing them with popular culture through their setting in museums such as the Carnavalet Museum in Paris. The Passage was created on the top floor of Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier's celebrated 1931 villa on the outskirts of Paris. The fluid modernist spaces are interrupted by two little birds that stir the air and revive the spirits of the place: echoes of freedom and a baroque joie de vivre that both enrich and slightly destabilize Le Corbusier's modernist aesthetic.