HEYDT
Last to inherit
2020 The State We're In
HEYDT
Medium:
Digital and Printed billboards
Displayed:
UK-wide, January - February 2023
Artwork Description:
HEYDT’s work presents an abstract proposition for a world on the periphery of history, one which is not only haunted by the ghosts of the past, but built is on it. Disrupting logical associations, the layered imagery conflates time and place to reveal the uncertainties of a world exploited beyond use.
“Our current era is marked by continuous crises and deferred anxiety, resource depletion and mass extinction, clean coal and climate change, obesity and food scarcity, as well as a rise in sea level, nationalism, and misinformation.” – HEYDT
Artist's Comment:
With the edge closer than we think, illusion won’t free us from reality.
Bio:
HEYDT works across multiple mediums, combining images of destruction with evocative symbols of the American Dream. Her work confronts the disillusionment of our time with the ecological and existential nightmare it is responsible for.
HEYDT has lived and worked in Paris, Venice, Amsterdam, Athens, Buenos Aires, Sydney, Reykjavík, Udaipur, and Vienna. She is the founder of Jane Street Studio, a design firm in business since 2012, as well as KITSCH Gallery, an art space and concept store launched in 2020. HEYDT’s work has been shown in galleries, museums, art fairs, and film festivals worldwide and is held in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.
Curator's Comment:
Let’s play… impending global apocalypse!
