Overview
Marian Goodman Gallery New York is delighted to present our first solo exhibition of the artist Edith Dekyndt, titled Notes on What is What.
Marian Goodman Gallery New York is delighted to present our first solo exhibition of the artist Edith Dekyndt, titled Notes on What is What.
As a point of departure for this exhibition, Dekyndt focuses on the vision of an insular society preserved from the forces that shape the rest of the world, a themse inspired from Aldous HUxley's final novel, "Island," published in 1962 in which conditions for a possible co-existence between living beings, resources, and ways of inhabiting the world are reimagined.
The island emerges here as a territory of condensation. Defined by it's boundaries, it offers the possibility of observing the circulation of matter, narratives, and practices on a scale where the complexity of the world becomes perceptile without ever being simplified. These insular microcosms, with their fragile balances and interdependencies, have long informed the artist's reflection.