Paul Kneale

Born in 1986 in Toronto, Canada. Lives and works in London.

Paul Kneale has been working closely with ARTUNER since early 2015. He is interested in how the world is constantly translated into a digital language which simplifies, trivialises and depersonalises content and the people it addresses. Archeologia Futura is part of an ongoing series of sculptures where Kneale combines recovered and recycled telecom equipment like satellite dishes into new sculptural forms. Kneale is fascinated by the invisible elements of technology; giving signals and digitized connections a visual representation, the artist brings them into the realm of sculptural bodies. These objects are concerned with both the space they occupy physically, and the much greater, perhaps even interstellar space they aim with their operation, but when they cease to perform their original function they become uncanny and almost cumbersome. Alongside this vision, Kneale observes the opposite: the innate propensity of the human being to erect barriers, physical or mental. Paul Kneale investigates the relationship between abstract, sometimes cosmic theories, which exist as ideas and the scale of the human body that contemplates them.