Description:
Bühnenbilder?, the title of Silke Otto-Knapp?s recent exhibition in Minneapolis, are the fabricated views resulting from dressing sets. Neutral until they are costumed, they are like blank volumes awaiting a set designer?s meticulous treatment. The only colours in these works are black, grey, silver, and white. The artist?s palette and methodology, in which she applies a dark watercolour wash and then subtracts from it using absorptive implements, raising images from the dark, reflects the photograph?s urge to resurface something whose very location ? in history, memory, desire ? eludes the grasp of any image.00Exhibition: Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA (07.11.2018-20.01.2019)