Edith Derdyk at La Petite Escalère
As part of its yearly series of modern and contemporary outdoor installations, La Petite Escalère has invited Brazilian artist Edith Derdyk to create a installation for the garden. This ephemeral site-specific work, installed in May 2017, will be on view until the fall and is part of this season’s theme around spiders.
This new installation, entitled Fantasmagorias, made of 78 kilometers of white cotton thread is located in La Petite Escalère’s woods. An interview of the artist from Sculpture Nature, La Petite Escalère’s blog:
In Edith Derdyk’s work, it all starts with the line–drawn, stitched, stretched in the space or in book pages. For the artist, the line is more than “being a contour that defines territories and form”, it is “an event in space”*.
Very early in her career, she started using the line as a physical element, sewing and interlacing threads and lines on paper, transforming her drawings into 3D experiments with white or black cotton thread as main material.
She goes further, creating site-specific installations in which she stitches together architectural elements–walls, ceilings–and more recently natural elements–trees, branches, stumps. Each of those installations requires kilometers of thread that the artist pulls in repetitive and methodical back-and-forth until the materialization of a three-dimensional drawing, scratched, etched in space.
A few installation shots taken in May 2017:
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Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, à La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, at La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagories, 2017, a La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagorie, 2017 à La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagorie, 2017 à La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Edith Derdyk, Fantasmagorie, 2017 à La Petite Escalère. Photo Barbara Fecchio.
Born in 1955, Edith Derdyk lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Her work was the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. In 2017, she is selected for the prestigious Marcantonio Vilaça Award.* “In the Studio with Veteran São Paulo Artist Edith Derdyk”, Artsy, 4/10/2015.
