Biography
Amanda Lydért's (b. 1994, Denmark) practice oscilliates between the intimate and the relational. Working conceptually across text, painting, and installation, Lydert employs a methodology of collage and sampling, often co-opting the high-gloss strategies of advertising and commercial image culture.
 
Central to her work is an auto fictional and often explicit "I", resulting in honest, almost confessional self-reflections; yet the "I" insists on appearing as a symptom and a sign rather than as a centre. Through a liberal use of the concepts of resonance and mark-making, Lydert explores how the individual and the world echo one another - how they bruise and brace one another.
In a language that borders euphoria, catastrophe and the everyday, her work points to the crashes and collisions in economies played out on earth, specifically those of ecology and attention. Lydert's way is poetic, always relying on the seduction of beauty, while never neglecting the subversive power of humor.
 
Amanda Lydert holds an MA in Critical Practice from the Royal College of Art, London (2022). Her work has been included in exhibitions at V1, Copenhagen (2023, 2021); Galeria Servando, Havana (2023); Brigade Gallery, Copenhagen (2023). In 2021, Lydert published her artist book GLOSSY PAGES, HARD GLISTERING PEARLS with Thoughts of Me Press, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Selected Works
  • Amanda Lydért and Frederik Nystrup-Larsen, Fridge magnet memory, 2023, shown at Brigade Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark.
    Amanda Lydért
    Fridge magnet memory, 2023
    Collaborative work by Amanda Lydért & Frederik Nystrup-Larsen

    Acrylic and oil on jute
    140 x 110 cm
  • Amanda Lydért and Frederik Nystrup-Larsen, Immortalised with sun block ultra, 2023, shown at Brigade Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark.
    Amanda Lydért
    Immortalised with sun block ultra, 2023
    Collaborative work by Amanda Lydért & Frederik Nystrup-Larsen

    Acrylic and oil on jute
    140 x 110 cm
  • Amanda Lydért, Knees green from the sublime, 2023
    Amanda Lydért
    Knees green from the sublime, 2023
    Collaborative work by Amanda Lydért & Frederik Nystrup-Larsen

    Acrylic and oil on jute
    139 x 197 cm
  • Amanda Lydért, Ocean breeeeeeeze promises, 2023
    Amanda Lydért
    Ocean breeeeeeeze promises, 2023
    Collaborative work by Amanda Lydért & Frederik Nystrup-Larsen

    Acrylic and oil on jute
    140 x 110 cm
  • Amanda Lydért, Play the simulated sun, 2023
    Amanda Lydért
    Play the simulated sun, 2023
    Collaborative work by Amanda Lydért & Frederik Nystrup-Larsen

    Acrylic and oil on jute
    140 x 110 cm
Exhibitions