Underworld

When recently asked why “Underworld” for a title of his show, Knopf flippantly replied “It’s in a basement”. Yet Knopf’s vision of the Underworld is not one of tortured souls or Elysian fields, instead it is one of playful precariousness, a metaphor for the current times we are living in.Knopf’s sculptures consider time and form. He defamiliarizes objects, often relics from museum collections, and represents them through incongruous contemporary materials. On talking about his practice Knopf says “my sculptures are blurred and have an air of digital archaeology about them, because of this they are able to encompass the past, present, and future”