Conceptually, her work flees from certainties —it is situated on that ambiguous and hidden edge of the visible.
Karina Beltrán (Tenerife, 1968) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of La Laguna in 1991. From 1998 to 2010 she lived in London, where she did postgraduate studies. She has a Master of Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design and a Postgraduate Diploma in Photography from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Her work is part of the permanent collections of TEA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife, the Government of the Canary Islands and numerous private national and international collections. Karina Beltrán's artistic production is defined by its variety and stylistic richness. Her pictorial works, generally in small format, are characterized by the use of an abstract, geometric language, in refined and schematic compositions. Her photographs, on the contrary, portray the strangeness of the everyday, sometimes featuring anonymous, intangible and almost artificial individuals. Conceptually, her work flees from certainties—it is situated on that ambiguous and hidden edge of the visible. The artist invents an imaginary experience of the senses through poetic construction configured from the emotional. She invites us to search, to question the world and question ourselves; to reflect on the transitory, the fragile, and the ungraspable. The being in continuous movement, the individual and the multitude, the external look and the private reality, are questions present in her work, as well as intimacy, isolation, nostalgia, concealment and loss.