In Stéphanie Kilgast’s vibrant but poignant items, a speculative future with out people offers rise to uncommon relationships. “In my art work, humanity is absent, abandoning its legacy of objects, buildings, and trash,” the artist says. She continues:
Natural world are taking on. Animals, mushrooms, lichens, crops, and corals are inhabiting each nook and cranny, thus creating new habitats. This symbiosis between the thing and the rising surroundings displays the stability and respect that humanity has misplaced, and that I symbolically recreate in my work by expressing hope, pleasure, and the fantastic thing about nature in an explosion of shade.
Kilgast’s lighthearted, vivd, post-apocalytpic sculptures typically embody objects we have a tendency to search out discarded alongside the facet of the highway, like aluminum cans or glass bottles. Uncanny habitats additionally emerge round outmoded objects like VHS tapes, moveable CD gamers, or alarm clocks, which individuals hardly ever have a necessity for anymore due to smartphones or streaming companies.
The artist has additionally just lately introduced a brand new ebook, Utopia, which chronicles the final ten years of her work. The amount brings collectively a decade of sculptures, work, and sketchbook pages, complemented by essays and a whole catalogue of her items.
Utopia will print if a minimum of 150 pre-orders are made by October 3. Dibs your copy at present through Dashbook. Orders are anticipated to ship in December. Discover extra on the artist’s web site and Instagram.
