For Karima, it was a special feeling when she heard about the global lockdown in 2020. To withdraw, to withdraw her studio to the house. She set up her gouaches, her papers and started to develop a body of work around water, bodies in water and blue. Then, the reading of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time fed her imagination and activated new worlds inside her and new dimensions in her perception of the world. The colors, the sensations, the words, this time and the memory that constituted her present and that she had to occupy differently, since everything had changed. Painting became obsessive.
Karima’s practise is intuitive: with clay, on paper or canvas, the artist manipulates and gets rid of an academic practice of sculpture and painting. She deploys landscapes, intertwined with primitive architectures and ghostly bodies, so light that they seem ready to fly, to disappear.
Karima lives in France and is a Graduate from l’Ecole des Beaux Arts of Besancon in France with a MFA.
