The Elements Conspire Against Nature @ Final Hot Desert
Excerpt from, “Letter from a prisoner in the isolation wing: June 16, 1972 - February 9, 1973”:
The feeling your head is exploding (the feeling the top of your skull should really tear apart, burst wide
open)—
The feeling your spinal column is pressing into your brain—
The feeling your brain is gradually shriveling up, like baked fruit—
The feeling you’re completely and surreptitiously wired, under remote control—
-Ulrike Meinhof
The Elements Conspire Against Nature is an exploration of labor and departure under capitalism. This exhibition eyes an unnatural landscape of readymades. Fabricated from sites of industrial labor, objects taken from prison-wings, famine histories and waste piles, Knight’s turns turns toward detention and mechanization, and attempts poetry in the face of work-as-liberty.
Final Hot Desert
Salt Lake City