Published 27 AUG 2024

Opening – 13 SEP 2024, 6-10 pm
13 SEP till 16 NOV 2024

Konrad Fischer Galerie is pleased to present “Animal Methods”, Edith Dekyndt’s third solo exhibition in the gallery. A mix of video, textiles, found objects and drawings, as well as a performance on the opening day, focuses on toxic substances from flora and fauna and approaches the topic in a variety of materials.

Edith Dekyndt combines natural things with 3D-generated forms and anthropomorphic gestures with those of animal movements as well as poisonous or carnivorous plants with textiles. A video made in Ibiza shows snake skins blowing in the wind like a flag, which the artist has put over her fingers like a glove. A dancer is writhing on the floor and chewing inedible fruit into a toxic paste. A curtain has been sucked in due to the capillary effect Schweinfurt Green, an arsenic-based textile dye used in the 19th century.

The viewer is confronted with elements, textures and organic residues that evade clear identification when first viewed. The material details list strands of dyed hair, leaf copper, snake skin, pebbles, book covers eaten by mice, maple leaves, sugar and human blood and create ambivalent feelings between beauty, shock and disgust.

Edith Dekyndt, born in 1960 in Ieper, Belgium, was a guest of the DAAD’s Berlin Artists’ Program in 2015. She lives and works in Brussels.

Her work has been shown internationally at BOZAR and WIELS in Brussels, at Le Consortium in Dijon, at the 2013 Moscow Biennale, at the MoMA Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Witte de With in Rotterdam and at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and shown in the Liechtenstein Art Museum, Vaduz. In 2017 she took part in the 57th Venice Biennale curated by Christine Macel, and in 2020 in the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art. Last year, the Pinault Collection showed her a major solo exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris. Her works can be seen at the Fondation CAB in Saint-Paul-de-Vence until October 27, 2024.