The works of Adam Knight (London/UK) are snapshots that, aware of a static presence, reference happenings in the near future as well as resting traces from the past.
In his first solo exhibition Everything Must Go Flat Adam Knight presents current works from 2011 and 2012. He focuses his artistic interest on moments of transition. The presented works are snap-shots which refer to occurences in the near future or to relics from traces of the past.
By using historical documents or archives as raw material Adam Knight’s works spotlight well-known or forgotten aspects of our cultural history, for example the construction and later destruction of Richards Serra’s sculpture Tilted Arc from the 1980s in New York (US). Adam Knight makes use of reflection methods including (art) production, (art) reception as well as the (art) work.
His newest works are the result of a four months atelier stay at the ACC Gallery Weimar and a joint project with art historian Simone Bogner about the Nietzsche memory hall in Weimar. Designed and built between 1937 and 1944, it served as a broadcasting centre of the GDR in 1946 and later as a local radio station. Since 2000 it stands empty.
