Veteran Los Angeles-based conceptualist John Knight is known for his rigorous practice in situ, and his second show at Greene Naftali foregrounds apparatuses of display and politicized surveillance. The five works include a closed-circuit video installation of a blank corner, projected in another corner; a Flemish TV commercial directed by Knight for apples accompanied with an eerie soundtrack of monks’ chanting and guest worker languages; and a 16mm film narrative (converted to video) about producing a print at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in the mid ’70s, written in the language of a detective’s suspicious notes. Projectors and a camera are installed conspicuously, close to the ground, demystifying the exhibition’s architecture.
Pictured: View of John Knight’s exhibition “a work in situ,” 2015, at Greene Naftali.