Zone à aimer

2023 
UV print on tracing paper 
40 x 30 cm 
55 copies+ 3 A.P. + 2 N.C. 
Signed and numbered by the artist.

«Zone à aimer», a series of cut-out maple leaves, is a collection of works with lucid and sharp poetry inspired by the «art of the poilus» of World War I. Consisting of cutting out chestnut, oak, and maple leaves to the veins, soldiers brushed these leaves in the trenches and represented sentimental, holy, or symbolic motifs that they could then slip into an envelope for their loved ones. By appropriating a language and a craft with intense historical connotations, Edith Dekyndt weaves a link between history and contemporary creation, questioning at the same time the relationship of humans to their environment and dissolving the boundaries between subjectivity and nature, appearance and reality, inert and living . 

This limited edition is an UV print on tracing paper produced as part of a collaboration between Éditions Dilecta and the Pinault Collection and on the occasion of the group exhibition «Avant l’orage» in which the artist is participating at the Bourse de Commerce (February - September 2023).