Dirk Knibbe

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

“I always thought butt cheeks should be just one word, you know considering the space of a clenched ass.” Today I introduce 2 sculptures with their accompanying accoutrements. I am calling them Lecterns. Often in events of speech, the object that accompanies this display of language is called this. I made them to explore the boundaries of the contemporary communicative signal. To test the vulnerable and convoluted relationship between language and objects and their material and visual perception. This relation of between language and object is a certain kind of site or a seam. One of the translation of values and wavering faith models where logic is upended and the irresolvable is embraced, which sounds a lot like living itself. This seam is one of oppositional dynamics, polarities in buttress and shifting exactitude that are then justified and reinforced with the sculptural in mind. We should consider Barthes proclamation in the 3rd meaning, “my reading remains suspended between the image and its description, between definition and approximation.” I also made a book of cues and prompts. A book is its own unique site of display and distribution of the signal and a reminder that the activity of reading is not only a conceptual rendering of communication but also a visual and tactile one. … A miscue can have great purpose, it slows the experience down, it asks for a reorientation. This subversion of certainty that is often found in comedy operations creates a wider and more...

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