James Fuentes Gallery

Mar 7–Jun 14, 2026

Curated by Katrin Lewinsky

Utilizing everyday materials, chance operations, and indeterminacy, Alison Knowles creates interactive performances, visual works, and installations that engage sound, objects, and lived experience. Her work invites viewers to become active participants, awakening personal perception through acts of listening, touching, and looking anew.

“The events I perform, the prints I have made and the environments I build are designed to put the spectator/performer in touch with him/herself and the real world. Since all feelings reside in the individual sensibility, I am interested in touching, awakening and activating certain of my own and your personal responses. Some of this happens through sound, some through the use of found objects in a given environment, some through the glorification of daily occurrences such as eating a sandwich or examining a button. I regard simple routine activities taken for granted, materials cast off as worthless, and unglorified products as worthy of all kinds of perusal. My environments and performances are collections of such things. Listen as if you had never heard it; look at it as if you had never seen it before. Investigate again what you already know.”

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