Universal sympathy
Royaume Uni
2017Jury
Scattering the cremated ashes of his grandfather onto photographic paper as photograms, a vision of the universe appears in which one can see almost as far back in time as the Big Bang, reconnecting the remains of the dead with the origin of all life. Through the trace cast by the ash, a black hole emerges in which the void left by the other is made evident. With the use of macro photography to photograph individual fragments of his grandfather’s remains, Alan Knox percieved from these molecules the building blocks of the entire universe.
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About the artist
Alan Knox was born in 1985. He lives and works in London. Since he graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2015, he has been exhibited at the Daniel Blau Gallery in London, the Kaunas Photo Gallery in Lithuania and the Stills Gallery in Edinburgh. Previously, the Universal Sympathy series has been featured in the British Journal of Photography, in Creative Review, and in Fotografia.