Bravely going where no man has gone before, Ulli Knall populates her parallel universe with classical ceramic sculptures of a unique species of space aliens known as shapeshifters. Knall plays the role of a crazed biologist, inventing the rules of shapeshifting as she goes along. Shapeshifters in their pure essence are liquid. But they can form into mass in any shape they like (usually in the image of Knall’s close friends or favoured celebrities). They are generally distinctive due to their lack of hair. However, it’s been discovered that on their home planet (the landscape is oddly similar to the Scottish Highlands where Knall vacationed last summer), these beings usually take the form of fat bellied sex icons with outrageous cows. Photos from Knall’s latest invention, the gamma-cam, give some of the best documentation of foreign life-forms known on earth.
Patricia Ellis