Title: Heaven Is A Prison
Artist: Mark McKnight
Loose Joints & Light Work, 2020
Silkscreened hardcover hand-wrapped inside printed paperSoftcover with flaps, 60 tritone plates
250 x 305 mm
132 pages
First edition
Text by Garth Greenwell in English
ISBN: 9781912719150
In “Heaven is a Prison“, Mark McKnight describes a queer otherworld that is at once utopic and purgatorial – occupied by a solitary pair of copulating, Sisyphean protagonists that appear both liberated and bound by their intimacies and the severe expanse in which they are depicted.
Divided into chapters, the poetic sequences in this book oscillate between the literal and the figurative, between distance and communion, and between violence and affection. Claustrophobic, horizonless landscapes are coupled with images of ethereal clouds and tangled bodies that are simultaneously sculptural, shrewd, and tender.
- From the publisher’s website
In “Heaven is a Prison“, Mark McKnight describes a queer otherworld that is at once utopic and purgatorial – occupied by a solitary pair of copulating, Sisyphean protagonists that appear both liberated and bound by their intimacies and the severe expanse in which they are depicted.
Divided into chapters, the poetic sequences in this book oscillate between the literal and the figurative, between distance and communion, and between violence and affection. Claustrophobic, horizonless landscapes are coupled with images of ethereal clouds and tangled bodies that are simultaneously sculptural, shrewd, and tender.
- From the publisher’s website
