HEYDT

HEYDT is an internationally acclaimed visual artist, published author, film-maker, and lifelong environmentalist.
Born in NYC, she has lived and worked in Paris, Amsterdam, Sydney, Venice, New York City, Udaipur, Auckland, Reykjavik, Miami, and Vienna. Her academic career traversed: La Sorbonne, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Parsons School of Design, The New School, Cooper Union, and the Universiteit van Amsterdam. She has attended artist residencies in Iceland, Australia, and New Zealand, where she documented different forms of environmental exploitation.
Esteemed as one of the pioneers of the recycled media movement, HEYDT works across different media- film, video, installation, photography, sculpture, sound, and text. It employs a range of materials, often reinventing and trespassing their associative use.
Heydt’s work has been shown in galleries, museums, art fairs, and film festivals worldwide.

HEYDT‘s work presents an abstract proposition for a world on the periphery of history that appears haunted by the ghosts of the past but built on it.
Her layered imagery conflates time and place, colliding and merging generations of possibilities, and disrupting logical relationships between occurrences.

Through her unique manner of expression, she presents a world exploited beyond use and increasingly reduced to a bottom line, one marked by a mass extinction, product fetishism, diminishing resources, and patented seeds.

The uncertainties and inevitabilities of which are drowned out by the white noise of the media and the empty promises it proposes for the future it truncates.
Combining images of destruction with portrayals of the virtues born from the American Dream, Heydt confronts the disillusionment of our time with the ecological and existential nightmare it is responsible for.

“Working across different media- film, video, installation, photography, sculpture, sound, and text, Heydt presents an abstract proposition for a world on the periphery of history, one that not only appears haunted by the ghosts of the past but built on it.
Heydt’s layered imagery conflate time and place, colliding and merging generations of possibilities, and disrupting logical relationships between occurrences. Combining images of destruction with portrayals of the virtues born from the American Dream, Heydt confronts the disillusionment of our time with the ecological and existential nightmare it is responsible for. “

“The edge is closer than we think, but illusion won’t free us from reality, even as the sustained narrative of tabloids becomes history. The myth of progress continues to perpetuate inequality.
As the natural world is liquidated and substitutes with an artificial one, public discourse is being defined by even narrower bandwidths. While social processes defy the logic of individualism in global capitalism, the underbelly of profitability fueling globalization emerges as exploitation.
In a time marked by a mass extinction, product fetishism, diminishing resources, and patented seeds, we find ourselves in a world exploited beyond use, a world increasingly reduced to a bottom line.
Concerns for which are drowned out by the white noise of the media and the empty promises it proposes for the future it truncates. “

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