Lucinda Dayhew investigates relationships between social, environmental, and psychological phenomena with a rhythmic bent, sculpting words and moulding materials and sounds to form rhythmic objects. Her narratives become pulses that shift shape as they grapple with the conflicting ethics of daily life. Her works materialise as installations, performances, films and photographs, sound works, sculptures, and texts.
Dayhew reflects upon language and translation, codes and materials of adults’ and children’s play, (sub)tropical encroachments, climate change induced micro and macro anxieties, birdsong and other non human and human vocalisations, patterns and flows of human and non human immigration via global food and goods distribution, imperialism, labour fragmentation, social capital and exchange, and behavioural patterns and loops. She spurns the compulsory yet constrictive form of the short artist bio. She is a keen collaborator and is one half of two active performance duos alongside her solo practice. She is also a long term drummer, percussionist, and music maker. Her works continue to wrestle with observational humour, lack, failure, holes, and voids. Dayhew’s aesthetics arc from the gleaming to the abject, and she embraces both ends of the spectrum with all of her limbs.
Born in Orange (Australia), formerly known as the Apple City in the Central West of New South Wales, she grew up in subtropical Sydney. After spending several years in London she moved to Berlin where she now resides.
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Selected exhibitions and performances: Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), Titanik (Turku, Finland), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), SALTS as part of Liste (Basel), Brücke Museum, NBK, Art Berlin Contemporary (Berlin), Kunsthall Stavanger (Norway), FRAC Lorraine (Metz, France), Bielefeld Kunstverein, Galerie für Zeitgnössische Kunst (Leipzig), BQ (Berlin), Swimming Pool, (Sofia/Frankfurt), CTM Festival (Berlin), PVA MediaLab (London), Runway, Electrofringe (Newcastle, Australia), Skanu Mesz Festival (Riga), Frost Radio (Seoul), e-flux video archive (New York/Berlin).
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