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ArtReview

Mark Armijo McKnight’s Black Sky Thinking

By Jacinda Tran

October 28, 2024

In Decreation at the Whitney, Armijo McKnight mines Simone Weil’s neologism to evoke a sense of creation-through-eradication

Decreation consists of five large-format photographs in black and white, two icy limestone sundials and a film projection, which together transform a single room on the first floor of the Whitney. However minimal this monochromatic exhibition, Mark Armijo McKnight succeeds in folding the vastness of the New Mexican desert into the confines of a Manhattan museum: two spaces that appear, at first glance, utterly opposed, save their supposed sterility and sublimity. Read More