2024-05-02T09:13:37-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149945247/john-knight-s-installation-at-redcat-makes-you-think-about-the-difference Orhan Ayyüce 2016-05-15T12:00:00-04:00 >2022-03-16T09:10:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9r/9rejwbb70bc1end1.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>His installation invites comparison to other kinds of architectural fakery, including malls, entertainment centers, theme parks and casinos. Many of these businesses serve themselves up as sanitized versions of real cities.</p></em><br /><br /><p>L.A Times reviews John Knight exhibition at the REDCAT in Los Angeles.</p><p><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/john-knight" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Knight</a>'s work is known internationally for its institutional critique and its meticulously&nbsp;investigated in-situ precision opening itself to the series of further questions. What is behind the subjects concerning the things that matter, made visual in the aesthetics of the works which materialize as carefully designed objects, housing critical subtexts anywhere from economics to physical architecture to federal politics of territoriality to the institutionalization of art and other mirrored contexts with penetrating acumen provoking the viewer to "think" as the&nbsp;L.A. Times critic David Pagel quotes in his review title.&nbsp;</p>