1998年誕生於神奈川。童年時期曾在荷蘭生活多年的塩沢凱倫，目前就讀東京造型大學研究所，2018在國立新美術館舉辦之亞洲創造美術展中榮獲最優秀造型獎。她始終摸索著以作品作為媒介來擴展交流領域。除了將童年居住在歐洲的記憶與日常生活中的情感融入平面作品中之外，還追求著透過視覺以外的感官所認識到的世界表象，開拓透過聲音、光線及立體等能對五感產生影響的表現形式。

浩瀚星系是塩沢凱倫的畫面基底，木製畫板上以壓克力、油畫與醇酸樹脂為媒材，堆疊出宇宙銀河超乎尋常的光影層次。自小在荷蘭成長的背景，藝術家在構圖中建造了許多歐洲風景的元素，木造風車、古典拱門、教堂尖塔等。以不同粗細的針筆將顏料刮除後所呈現虛幻與現實交錯的場景，透過世界的縫隙一窺人類內心意識的想像連結。

Title｜Karen SHIOZAWA: Galaxy Carnival
Dates｜February 19th 2022 – March 27th 2022
Venue｜1F, No.1, Jihu Rd., Neihu Dist., Taipei City, 114, Taiwan

Karen SHIOZAWA Born in Kanagawa in 1998, Karen SHIOZAWA spent several years of her childhood in the Netherlands and is currently a postgraduate student at Tokyo Zokei University. She was awarded the Best Formative Art Prize at the Asian Creative Art Exhibition 2018 held at The National Art Center, Tokyo. SHIOZAWA is consistently seeking to expand the realm of communication mediated through her work. While projecting her childhood memories and everyday feelings into the two-dimensional works, she is also aiming to represent a world that is perceived through means other than sight by cultivating the ways of expression using sound, light, and three-dimensional forms.
The boundless galaxy is the major scene in SHIOZAWA’s works. Using Acrylic, oil, alkyd resin on the wood board to build up the exceptional appealing layers of light and shadow in the Milky Way. Grown up in Netherlands, her compositions and lines feature the European elements, such as wooden windmill, classic-style arch and church steeples. To present the visional and realistic scenes, SHIOZAWA scrapes the paint away with different sizes of technical pens. Through her paintings, the audiences could take a glimpse of the imaginary connection of their inner consciousness along the breach of the world.