Not Knot Nought

KANSAS is pleased to present Knot Not Nought, a solo exhibition of new work by Sreshta Rit Premnath. Opening January 25, the exhibition will be on view through March 8, 2014. EK: Shall we begin? LW: Where shall we begin? EK: Blue tape, 20mm wide, 130cm high. That's where I begin. LW: What about it? Is that a rule of some sort-a guiding principle? EK: It's simply a line. It demarcates space. LW: A line or a loop? A circumscription, a boundary, a mode of separation. EK: Others make art that separates. I make art that connects. LW: Ah, this blue tape is art then. EK: Well, it may or may not be art, but it's certainly blue tape, 20mm wide, 130cm high. LW: But so is everything else. I mean, everything is at the very least itself. EK: Yes, but this is rarely apparent. In fact things almost never appear to be what they are. LW: But are things not also what they appear to be? We can never separate things from that which draws our attention to them. Your line-the tape-which simultaneously points to things and crosses them out. EK: The tape is merely a stand in. It is a finger pointing at the moon. We mustn't mistake the finger for the moon. Yet, without the finger we may altogether miss the moon. LW: Then mustn't we ask, what is a thing? What demarcates a thing and separates it from another? What separates the blue tape from all the (other) objects it intersects? Is this separation simply our perception or is there a real distinction that cleaves one thing from another. EK: The answer is rather simple. We see their separation. We may not know how we know it but we know it. This certainty precedes our knowledge. LW: I cannot disagree more. On the contrary, in every serious philosophical question uncertainty extends to the very roots of the problem. EK: But then where do we begin? *Portions of the this text have been adapted from Remarks on Colour and Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the translated writings of Edward Krasinski from the Foksal Gallery Foundation. The above photograph was extracted from the Generali Foundation catalog, Edward Krasinski: Les mises en scène Sreshta Rit Premnath has had solo exhibitions at The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Gallery SKE, Bangalore; Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin; Wave Hill, New York; Art Statements, Art|41|Basel; as well as numerous group exhibitions at venues including YBCA, San Francisco; Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris; 1A Space, Hong Kong; Thomas Erben Gallery and Friedman Benda Gallery, New York. He is the founder and co-editor of the publication Shifter and co-organizes the ongoing Project for an Archive of the Future Anterior. Premnath completed his BFA at The Cleveland Institute of Art, his MFA at Bard College, and has attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, Skowhegan and Smack Mellon. He has received grants from Art Matters and the Civetella Ranieri Foundation, and was awarded the Arthur Levitt Fellowship from Williams College. Based in Brooklyn, Premnath teaches at Moore College in Philadelphia. The gallery is located at 59 Franklin Street, three blocks South of Canal between Broadway and Lafayette. The closest subways are A/C/E,6,J/Z,N/Q/R and W at Canal and the 1 train at Franklin Street. For additional information, please contact Steven Stewart at KANSAS by calling +1 (646) 559-1423 or emailing info@kansasgallery.com

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