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Decreation and Desire

By Miller Schulman

October 4, 2024

DECREATION AND DESIREMiller Schulman on Mark Armijo McKnight at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

“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