Karma opens an exhibition of works by Carole Vanderlinden

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Socrates and Phaedrus take a stroll on the outskirts of Athens, their dialogue careening across such subjects as desire, divine madness, the limits and possibilities of language, and the forms reality takes in memory and other representations. Among the claims levied in this text—written by Plato circa 370 BCE and read by artist Carole Vanderlinden nearly two-and-a-half millennia later while she made the oil paintings in Fragmented Thought—is that art cannot be reduced to the elements of its production. Composite parts like materials, techniques, and art-historical conditions cannot account for each work’s singularity. Vanderlinden’s work, which spans and often combines painting, collage, and drawing, resists assimilation into any single genre or style. It nevertheless retains an immediately recognizable sensibility. The paintings