Andra plats i Gomma Black and White Awards 2024

Motivering:
What drives a mind to create art? An easy and impossible question, that Knösch approaches in his work, the urge to be creative removed from limitations leaves a quest, makes the artist the art and shows the ups and downs of this process over time.

Knösch creates a visual diary, intimate and inquisitive, capturing the world around him, with portraits that seem to convey that no one has a definitive answer about their own self and that might just be what unites us after all, the incompleteness, and the quest for fulfilment.

In portraits that feel fleeting like the glimpse of a moment, a flashback, paired with dreamlike, soft, and deluding memory-interludes, we can feel the turmoil, connection, and humbleness a creative mind needs to refine its expression.

Words by Laura Estelle Barmwoldt.