Amanda Lydért

Amanda Lydért's (b. 1994, Denmark) practice oscilliates between the intimate and the relational. Working conceptually across text, painting, and installation, Lydért 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, Lydért 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. Lydért's way is poetic, always relying on the seduction of beauty, while never neglecting the subversive power of humor.

 

Amanda Lydért 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, Lydért published her artist book GLOSSY PAGES, HARD GLISTERING PEARLS with Thoughts of Me Press, Copenhagen, Denmark.