KNOCK
TEKTONICS
28.02.20 ~ 01.03.20
‘Tektoniks’ is the latest body of work from Benjamin Knock – ‘a multidisciplinary artist whose work aims to traverse the public into their imagination and fuse the relationship between surrealism, and our natural habitat’. KNOCK felt his first seismic wave a few years ago while living in the mountains of Kyushu, Japan, and now earthquakes are a central theme in this exhibition. He says the feeling of an earthquake tremor is difficult to describe in words, so instead, he has created artworks that are ‘a visual and auditory exploration of these inaudible and indescribable tectonic forces.
“TEKTONIKS is a multi-sensory exhibition exploring the world under our feet that we sometimes forget, the array of mediums such as sonic frequencies, light, pigment, and vibration. This recent show with Backwoods Gallery in Collingwood delves further into the concepts of deep time, and I think is more of a true representation of my style and the direction it is currently moving in. The show explores earthquakes and the idea that ‘humans can’t hear earthquakes’. When reading your artist statement about seismic waves caused by tectonic plates colliding, etc, it made me think of how slow those tectonic plates must move, like 2.5 cm a year, yet their collisions cause massive change to the earth’s surface, it made me relate that concept to our progress as artists. It’s not huge actions that cause the biggest impact, but repeated small actions consistently, that have the potential to create groundswells.
It has been a very interesting process of experimentation with the different elements. I have had the chance to collaborate with the master of sonics and an old school techno head, Christopher Coe, to work on an intense soundscape that includes a lot of oscillating frequencies that complement the works and create a pretty wild immersion to view the paintings in. Graffiti meets hyper geological immersion.”
- KNOCK
