Margot Q knight
EXPOSITION “ANIMA CORPUS” du 2 février au 18 mars 2006
Artist
Statement:
The images I make provide logical conclusions to my own absurd hypotheses
and show
how these fabulous possibilities could meld into the everyday world. I begin
with objects
or bodies and try to give them more life, or a different kind of life. Loneliness,
exuberance,
and wonder take on physical form.
My work is influenced by the fantasies of artists, including Hans Bellmer,
Gregory
Crewdson, Fernand Leger, Chema Madoz, Duane Michals, Orlan, Jeff Wall, Jan
Svankmajer, and The Brothers Quay, but above all it is a refraction of the
world I
encounter in my life. My parents’ medical textbook "Recognizable
Patterns of Human
Malformation," trees coated with sleeping butterflies, seizures between
a gunshot and
death, and lemon-flavored ants have fed my imagination with the wonders of
reality.
However, to see the world is also to see broken places, chemicals in the water,
hungry
people. I want to make fantastic, painful images to talk about the real world
and the
miraculous human body.
Artist Bio:
Margot Quan Knight was born in Seattle, WA 28 years ago. She studied photography
at
Dartmouth College and graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1999 with a Bachelor's
of Art
degree in Studio Art. From September 2000 to May 2002 she was as a sponsored
photographer at Fabrica, the communication arts research center of the Benetton
Group,
located in Italy. Margot is currently undertaking a 2-year period of full
time self-guided
artistic research, made possible by support from G.A.S. Art Gallery.
Margot’s photographs have been exhibited in personal shows in Milan,
Paris, and Lisbon
and featured in over 50 international publications including PHOTO France,
EFX Art &
Design, and Zoom. Her 2005 lecture schedule includes speaking events at Flash
In The
Can technology and design festival in Toronto, the University of Washington
School of Art
in Seattle, California State University in Chico, and Fabrica in Villorba,
Italy.
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