An important factor in Karen’s work is humour; unlike the terrifying—yet seductive—death vision of The Dying Art of Conversation—this piece is mordantly funny, perhaps even vicious. Under a hideous, artificial sky, cruel, circular spiked creatures roll across a jet black fundament; this is an outrageous universe pertaining to the present but also to all time; a terrifying vision of life and death in a world of electronic, cultural superpower. Yet its sly suggestion of the fatuous ‘product’ of US TV culture and its equally nihilistic and inane sub-societal tribes, the ‘nose piercing jamboree’ that is today’s equivalent of bread and circuses. Nick Garrett - art reviewer