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Adam Knight, 'Interior: site photograph Foundling Court, Brunswick Centre; Exterior: film still outside Brunswick Centre from ‘The Passenger’ dir: Michelangelo Antonioni' (1975)
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Adam Knight, ’Study for Brunswick Folly’ Digital Render
Exhibition
Two Estates | Adam Knight
27 May 2022 – 29 May 2022
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- The Brunswick Centre
- 110 Foundling Court, Marchmont Street (Entrance 3)
- London
England - WC1N 1AN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 10, 59, 68, 91, 168, 30, 73, 205, 390, 476
- Russell Square, Kings Cross, St Pancras
- Kings Cross
Following Adam Knight’s Autumn/Winter 2021–22 Being-in-Architecture residency, we are delighted to present ‘Two Estates’, a body of work culminating from his experiences.
About
Through installation, sound, photography, text and sculpture, Knight addresses the influence of heritage, conservation and cultural practices in the redevelopment of The Brunswick Centre. Drawing upon archival material and situated field recordings, Knight uses the building as a way of thinking about aspects of planning and decision-making in British post-war architecture. Works respond to the unique material and sonic conditions of The Brunswick through inversions of its architectural and propositional spaces. Methods of opacity, doubling and overlay linger on speculative moments that suggest divergent trajectories for the building across its 50-year history.
Adam Knight (b.1982) is an artist and tutor based in London working across text, sound and video. Taking apart the formats of artistic production, Knight addresses complexities inherent in art-making. He is interested in pursuing and interrogating moments of a-synchronicity, doubt and self-critique. Projects begin with a series of field visits and recordings to establish potential working practices and how a site might be hybridly represented as fiction and documentary. In architecture, a desire-line is a direct and improvised route taken between buildings that typically defy a pre-designated track. He works with desire-lines as a method of tethering sonic, textual and visual objects of research together.
Recent projects and exhibitions include Radiophrenia, CCA Glasgow; Begehungen, Entwürfnisse: Ring 8, Chemnitz; Inter-regnum-um-um, CheLA, Buenos Aires and Transmissions / The Watch, Cashmere Radio, Berlin. In 2023 he will undertake a Visual Art scholarship at Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop in Germany.
