Her work observes, identifies, and transforms the performative phenomenology of ordinary materials, objects, and gestures.[1][2]
She lives and works in Brussels and Berlin.
Work and career
Dekyndt established herself as an artist in the mid-1990s. Since then, she has become best known for working with everyday objects. These are typically forced into a transformation that leads to material transcendence, be it by means of chemical and physical reactions, or deceptively simple interactions with the human body. The documentation of such processes is essential to the work, which ranges across all sorts of media: video, photography, sound, installation, and performance. Dekyndt also channels in her art a myriad of influences, from literature, art history, philosophy, to science.
Dekyndt is represented internationally by industry-leading galleries:[3]Galerie Konrad Fischer and Karin Guenther in Germany, Greta Meert in Belgium, and Carl Freedman in the UK.[4]
Ne pas laver le sable jaune, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE (2023)
l'Origine des choses, Bourse du Commerce, Paris, France (2023)
Area of Inertia, Laennec Chapel, Pinault Collection, Paris, France (2022)
Concentrated Form of Non-Material Energy, St. Matthäus Kirche, Berlin, Allemagne (2022)
Visitation Zone, Riga International Biennal of Contemporary Art, Riga, Lettonie (2020) ;
The Ghost Year, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE (2020)
They shoot Horses, (Part 2), «Biennalsur», Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de America del Sur, Museo de la inmigración, Buenos Aires, AR (2019)
The Black The White The Blue, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, DE (2019)
The Lariat, VNH galerie, Paris, FR (2019)
Blind Objects, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK (2017)
Slow Objects, The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK (2017)
