Edith Dekyndt
Edith Dekyndt uses various media such as video, sculpture, installation, drawing and sound to bear witness to natural processes of transformation. Her work focuses on observing the structures that make up everyday objects. Like an experiment, the artist follows protocols prescribed by systems designed to subject various materials to unique environments. The artist's gestures thus forsake the creative act of direct manipulation of matter in favor of the often slow and unpredictable processes of physical forces. The fragile complicity between time and matter is therefore a central notion in Edith Dekyndt's plastic and conceptual practice.
In the current context, marked by conflicts and radical transformations in our ways of living and acting, with economic, material, immaterial, and emotional repercussions, Edith Dekyndt offers a series of works in which the dynamics between nature and culture, the rural and the urban, generate new paradigms that must be faced.
Biography
Edith Dekyndt lives and works in Brussels and Berlin. After studying visual communications, the artist attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Mons, where she trained with Gabriel Belgeonne. Her work has been shown in museums, biennales and fairs around the world. Artworks were displayed in the showcases of the Pinault collection's passage de la Bourse de Commerce in Paris during the exhibition L'Origine des choses in 2023. In 2016, the WIELS in Brussels devoted a first major retrospective to Edith Dekyndt with the exhibition Ombre Indigène, accompanied by a publication of the same name. In 2017, pieces by the artist are among those exhibited at the Viva Arte Viva exhibition at the 57th Venice Art Biennale at the Arsenal. Works attributed to Edith Dekyndt can be found in several public collections, including the MoMA in New York and Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly Witte de With) in Rotterdam.
Recent exhibitions
| 2024 | Déliquescence, group exhibition, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, CA Animal methods, solo exhibition, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Berlin DE Specific Subject, solo exhibition, Fondation CAB, St Paul de Vence, FR Song for the Siren, solo exhibition, Pallazzo Grassi, Venise, IT |
| 2023 | Ne pas laver le sable jaune, solo exhibition, Galerie Greta Meert, Bruxelles, BE L’Origine des choses, solo exhibition, Passage de la Bourse de Commerce, Collection Pinault, FR Icones, group exhibition, Punta Della Dogana, Pinault Collection, Venice, IT |
| 2022 | Aria of Inertia, solo exhibition, Chapelle Laennec, Paris, FR The Memory of Everything In The World, solo exhibition, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hambourg, DE Concentrated Form of Non-Material Energy, solo exhibition, Stiftung St. Matthaüs, Berlin, DE The Ordinary Lives of Women, group exhibition, Space A, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, MT |