Contemporary Art Writing Daily, Mark McKnight in Automatic Door, Park View / Paul Soto

“Automatic Door” at Park View _ Paul Soto Mark McKnight.jpg

“The asinine quantity of pictures of bodies today, instagram influencers, lotion advertising, pornography. The vast amount of flesh smeared on everything, our stores full of them, our faces spread at 10 meter heights. Everywhere; a hall of mirrors. As if Bernd and Hilla Becher had foretold of a, this, complete surveillance, catalog, cars with more eyes than spiders to take everything and render it. And our bodies become so extracted, mined, and repackaged, that we start to feel like we don't have bodies at all. Just things, mocked as meat space, something stupid or without sense, or heat, or passion, or sensitivity, but whitened teeth smiles mined. And then here a photo of a body still surprising, that can endear us to it, these weird incongruous things not yet fully extracted.”

Contemporary Art Writing Daily

Contemporary Art Daily

Mark McKnight