STATEMENT

Kyle Kruse (b. 1993) is an American artist living and working in London with an MFA from Goldsmiths University, combining spoken word, sculptural installation and moving image, to pull together personal and geopolitical narratives, hovering between discursive pasts and anarchistic futures. Stemming from auto-fiction and using himself as material to become an array of locations, objects, and characters, he composes rhythms of disorientation and collapse. Pastoral image and childhood innocence slide seamlessly into trauma and nightmarish seductions. Reality and fiction disarticulate themselves in Kruse’s stories, tearing through memory, history, and perception, exposing the latticeworks, the interconnectivity of action and affect, the skeletons in our closet.

Central to my practice are questions of personhood and individual sovereignty of the body with regards to senses of self and the non-spaces of “care”. In our neoliberal/post-truth landscape, the line between meat and person becomes non-existent and identity becomes exponentially fluid.