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| Un-Titled Project, no. 6 "The Cinematic Issue" Winter 2013/2014 |
I was thrilled to have been asked to create a suite of new oil paintings on paper entitled "Disappear" for the Un-Titled Project's "Cinematic Issue" (Issue #6) on newstands now. The original paintings from this issue are now available from Mulherin (Toronto/New York). Please contact Katharine Mulherin for more information.
Kris Knight - “Disappear”
Escapism is a theme that often comes up in my work – “to seek distraction from unpleasant realities through fantasy”. The disenchanted characters that I paint are a synthesis of fantasy and real-world memory; they tiptoe between the dichotomies of pretty and menace, hunter and hunted, innocence and the erotic. With this project I wanted to approach the theme of cinema within a literal sense of film as an escape – to be lost in film. The digital projections casts the characters into a new realm, centered but hidden, they are camouflaged by a layered atmosphere.