Edith Dekyndt

Born 1960 in Ypres (Belgium), lives and works in Belgium.

In the work of this artist trained in the « Printed Images » atelier at the École des beaux-arts de Mons, who draws her references from her research into Piero della Francesca and who worked with the architect Olivier Bastin, turning his “L’Escaut” studio into a thoroughgoing laboratory, and who also founded the “Universal Research of Subjectivity” group in 1999, the creative process as such takes precedence over finished form. The technologically modest mediums that she prefers are used to reveal a world at the limits of the visible that is subjective, ephemeral and impalpable.

Edith Dekyndt’s project for le Printemps de septembre, L’Ennemi du peintre, was inspired by a science fiction short story by the English writer J.G. Ballard about a variety of orchid that emits sounds. Working in the installation form, and developing associations of ideas from literature, science and art, Dekyndt gradually built up the different elements of her project: cut flowers chosen for their (social, economic and symbolic) roles throughout history, a video, the music of flowers, composed and performed on the theremin by Laurent Dailleau and based on a transcription of the Hertzian waves produced by the amino acids of flowers, plus audio guides for visitors. The point here is to see and feel the world differently, to hallucinate, to let the imagination run wild, to make it poetic, guided by invisible waves or enchanted by ethereal melodies.