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Photography, Digital on Aluminium
Size: 40 W x 32 H x 0.5 D in
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Photography/ Archival Pigment Print mounted on Dibond with wooden brace and cleave on back It is 32 x 40 inches (81.28 x 101.6 cm) Plateaus is an ongoing, non-linear series of abstract photographs. The Plateaus series reflects on a Sufi principle called “qayummia” which means creation in every moment. My process starts by drawing on a surface using gaffer tape, creating a new abstraction of that drawing through the compositional lens of the camera , creating another image through printing, and repeating this process until its last iteration is sealed through the use of a scanner. This work builds on the aesthetic and historical contexts of experimental filmmaking, minimalism, conceptualism, and repetition in Islamic geometric art. The tactile layering of instances within the photographs entices the senses despite the flatness of the surface, while the inclusion of intentional lens flares capture an ephemeral other worldly existence. Plateaus builds on a previous series called Drowning, a prior series of abstract works based in analog and digital processes. Like Plateaus, Drowning explores a process of combination and accumulation, the primary difference being that Drowning is a linear and generative series that utilized a camera instead of a digital scanner, which significantly shifted the scale and possibilities for Plateaus. Through cyclical and improvisational processes of construction and destruction, and the corresponding accumulation of marks and residues, these bodies of work pose questions about traditional relationships between abstraction and history while meditating on acts of archival preservation in the Black experience.
Photography:Digital on Aluminium
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:5
Size:40 W x 32 H x 0.5 D in
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My paintings, drawings, prints, and collaborative social practice projects reference Islamic ritual and cosmology, Black history archives, and personal memoirs. My creative process is grounded in research and experimentation within abstract, documentary and conceptual art traditions. I was born in Brooklyn, NY to parents who immigrated to the US from the Caribbean and South America in the 1970’s as teenagers and converted from Christianity to Islam as young adults, raising me within their new faith and country. Their fluid and willful transitions between place, philosophies, and histories has developed my understanding of the visual world – its nuances and boundaries, and the need to resist, reevaluate, and push beyond its limits. Through the experience of looking at/ participating in my artwork, I am inviting my audiences to embrace new possibilities that challenge traditional boundaries of race, nationhood, and religion; and create wholly new constructions that broaden our collective imaginations. Nsenga Knight was born in 1981 in Brooklyn, New York. She currently lives and works in Cairo, Egypt and New York. Knight has been awarded with a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, a Southern Constellations Fellowship, the Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant, and Brooklyn Arts Council grants. She has held artist residencies at BRICworkspace in Brooklyn, NY, the Drawing Center in New York, Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Galveston Artist Residency in Galveston, Texas, Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, Film/Video Arts Center in New York, and was a BCAT/ Rotunda Gallery Multimedia Artist in Resident in Brooklyn, NY.
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