Aganetha Dyck
Aganetha Dyck : Collaborations
Robin Laurence & Darrin J. MartensAganetha Dyck’s long-standing artistic practice is marked by a profound interest in the environment. Here she explores the ramifications all living beings would experience should honeybees disappear from earth. Together with her collaborators - the bees themselves - Dyck has created a diverse body of new work, including works combining cloth, thread, acrylic, ink, and honeycomb as well as mountings of a Braille version of a poem by Di Brandt incorporating bee-made chew marks. Aganetha Dyck received the Governor Generals Award in Media and Visual art in 2007.
Burnaby Art Gallery (12/2009) 72 pp 30 col. ill. 9 x 8 in hardcover 978-0-9809962-0-3 $23.95 Can. $27.95 U.S. (20 euros)
Aganetha Dyck
Estelle Pagès, Roger Balboni & Sylvie Marandon
Closely tied to the domestic sphere and to the customs and habits of manual labour, which she transfigures to suggest either anxiety or humour, Aganetha Dyck is concerned with the individual's place in the community. "More than transformations, a key element here is the metamorphosis of objects by temporarily relinquishing them to the labour of bees, or with other objects, notably clothes, putting them through intensive wash cycles. Though still recognizable, the process by which they have been kneaded and wrung has nonetheless moved them far enough away from their original context to make their meaning lie in displacement." Included in the publication are a lexicon of Dyck's oeuvre and an interview. In English & French.
Etroitement liée au monde domestique, aux coutumes, aux habitudes de travail manuel, qu'elle transfigure de manière à en suggérer tantôt l'angoisse tantôt une dimension humoristique, Aganetha Dyck d'intéresse à la place de l'individu sans la communauté. "Plutôt que transformer, l'un des enjeux est de métamorphoser les objets en les livrant un temps au labeur des abeilles ou pour d'autres, notamment les vêtements, en leur faisant subir des lavages intensifs ; tout en restant reconnaissables et identifiables, le processus dans lequel ont été malaxés les a suffisamment décalés de leur contexte initiale pour que leur signification soit de l'ordre d'un déplacement." Français et anglais.
Canadian Cultural Centre / Centre culturel canadien, Paris France (2001) 96 pp col. ill. 8x6 in. / 21x16 cm. 189694020x $22.00 (Can./U.S.)