Artistic practice
Azoulay’s artwork includes colourful sculpture, performance and installations. Her interdisciplinary works, which explore language, natural elements, and the female form, are often captured in film or photography finished with collage or paint. She uses ephemeral materials such as fresh flowers, clay, and her own body. In her exhibition ''Semi-Precious'' (2019) at Essex Flowers, Azoulay drew inspiration from a skeleton of an 11th-century German woman, who was found to have remnants of lapis lazuli on her teeth, indicating she was likely a manuscript illuminator. Azoulay's "Eating Flowers" motif, in which she consumes different flowers with dark, glitter-coated lips and teeth, explores ideas of vulnerability, nourishment, and decay.Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions include CUE Art Foundation in New York, curated by Glenn Ligon, ''Fire Tale'', Four Gallery in Dublin,'' Deep, Deep Under the Sea'', Mercer Union in Toronto,'' Sculpture After the Apocalypse'', Primetime, Brooklyn,'' The Botanist’s Mime'', Dose Projects, Brooklyn, and ''Indexing the Leaves'', Methodist Archives, Drew University in Madison, NJ.'Publications
In 2015, Azoulay self-published a booklet titled ''Flowers and their Meanings,'' which includes her photography and a dictionary of Victorian flower symbolism. Azoulay will expand her study of floriography, the Victorian language of flowers, in her upcoming book ''Flowers and their Meanings,'' which will be released by Clarkson Potter (an imprint of Penguin Random House) in 2022.References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Azoulay, Karen 1977 births 21st-century Canadian artists Canadian performance artists Women performance artists Living people Artists from Toronto