John Knight has long been attuned to the ideologies of the built environment, a quality showcased wonderfully in his upcoming exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago, John Knight: A work in situ, curated by Giampaolo Bianconi.
John Knight creates projects in situ, which are the result of careful observation of specific sites, and ex situ, which bring references to other places into the exhibition space. Whether in situ or ex situ, Knight’s works are context dependent, crystalizing the social, political, and economic forces that structure our built environment.