“Decreation” refers to the ongoing body of work by artist Mark Armijo McKnight, currently on view in a show of the same title, as well as to the concept developed by the late French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil: decreation as a deliberate destruction of the self. In his review of Armijo McKnight’s exhibition, Miller Schulman situates the artist’s work in relation to discourses on contemporary queer photographic practices, the legacy of modernist landscape photography, and the feasibility of queer critique, thereby drawing out the limits of the curatorial framing. Read More
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Decreation and Desire
By Miller Schulman
October 4, 2024