With ‘Tell Us Something That Nobody Knows’ Edith Dekyndt enters into a subtle dialogue with the history, materiality and atmosphere of the Kunsthalle, Bielefeld designed in 1968 by the American architect Philip Johnson.
The works make it possible to sensually experience what drives natural and social processes. Edith Dekyndt confronts the ambivalences and powerful, sometimes aggressive forces that characterise our natural and geopolitically unstable times with precise artistic settings in a wide variety of media.
Dekyndt’s multi-layered work encompasses video, sculpture, installation, drawing, sound and performance. With a minimalist aesthetic, she creates poetic reflections on universal phenomena and our world, in which both nature and culture, the urban and the rural – especially through our way of life and behaviour – are subject to profound change.
The title of the exhibition, ‘Tell us something that nobody knows’, is taken from the book ‘The Ethics of Dust’ (1866) by the British polymath and art critic John Ruskin, in which a dialogue about natural science, ethics and beauty unfolds in ten lessons. The title echoes the call to give space to secrets, to what has not yet been said or known.
Curators: Henrike Mund, Christina Végh
A catalogue will be designed by Studio Esther le Roy and published by Distanz Verlag to accompany the exhibition. With an introduction by Christina Végh and an essay by Rodney
