Mark McKnight | Mark McKnight (Aperture) Untitled (Diver). 2019.
“In ‘Untitled (Diver),’ a hirsute figure appears, at once emergent from and on the cusp of descending into the dark, marbled surface of water that swirls—chaotic, indiscri
(...) minate—like the subject’s hair around his wet, denuded body. The tight cropping both forces our intimacy with the photograph’s faceless protagonist and refuses to confer a horizon; it’s an aesthetic decision that charges the image, inducing a feeling of claustrophobia, while paradoxically suggesting that this body of water is boundless.
‘Untitled (Diver)’ occupies a kind of interstice. Situated between the real and the surreal, direct representation and construed meaning, the terrestrial and the ethereal, the picture illuminates photography’s broader poetic and transformative potentials as much as it points toward the specificity of my subjective experience.”
- Mark McKnight
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