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Jill Kiddon’s sculptures and expansive installations seem like relics of our present, uniting in their materiality not only the duality of man and nature, but also that of creation and destruction. These dualities become tangible through materials as diverse as aluminum, concrete and earth, plastic, cables, discarded clothing or dried flowers. Kiddon creates complex constructions that she often keeps in a fragile balance. Like an archaeologist, she tracks down the traces of our time, casts them in different materials, combines or alienates them and thus forms poetic bodies to which we relate our own existence.
For her exhibition Lux Ore, Jill Kiddon has developed two interrelated installations that take the closely interwoven relationship between natural resources and technological progress as their starting point, questioning both our dependence on energy and our insatiable hunger for it.
The works are an expression of Kiddon’s interest in the...More
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Jill Kiddon’s sculptures and expansive installations seem like relics of our present, uniting in their materiality not only the duality of man and nature, but also that of creation and destruction. These dualities become tangible through materials as diverse as aluminum, concrete and earth, plastic, cables, discarded clothing or dried flowers. Kiddon creates complex constructions that she often keeps in a fragile balance. Like an archaeologist, she tracks down the traces of our time, casts them in different materials, combines or alienates them and thus forms poetic bodies to which we relate our own existence.
For her exhibition Lux Ore, Jill Kiddon has developed two interrelated installations that take the closely interwoven relationship between natural resources and technological progress as their starting point, questioning both our dependence on energy and our insatiable hunger for it.
The works are an expression of Kiddon’s interest in the...More