Shields, 2010 £45k
«...Kneebone's rearrangement of body parts utilises the slippage between abstraction and figuration, directly addressing the synergy between gender and form. ... by making works around the void or lack (i.e. the symbolic vaginal hole in Lacanian terms) and populating it with sexed figures, she creates an anti-sex whilst still not approaching the pornographic. By being literal she explodes the supposed beauty of the work and uses a form to move past the assumed gendered subject to create a symbolic object» Her work «depicts an erotic state of flux, suspended mid-transition, divulging part figurative and fragmentary motifs (...) celebrating forms of transgression, beauty and seduction.»
Courtesy White Cube
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