Kyra Sacks

Artist-anthropologist Kyra Sacks (Amsterdam, NL, 1989) is drawn to contradictions: by how both infinite possibilities, beauty and resilience can exist side by side with uncertainty, injustice and destruction. In an attempt not to be numbed by such contrasts, she explores how they are perceived and connected. She searches for images and words that uncover the grey area between them. Between text and image, between looking outwards and inwards, between small stories and large structures. By mixing ethnographic research with the practice of drawing and vice versa, a tangible trace emerges; a web of meanings, questions and interactions.

In recent years Kyra has explored a variety of topics in her art, such as the romantic projections of man on nature in the Peruvian jungle; improvised shelters in the streets of Athens; the chair without a seat as a symbol for intergenerational trauma. In addition, she has studied the consequences of forced migration: how life takes shape in the formless time of waiting in refugee camps, confrontations between different groups on the Greek island of Lesbos emerge, how Afghan youths find their way in Europe and give shape to love and relationships. And in the field of rituals: how morticians in the Netherlands search for new rituals during the pandemic, what a sense of belonging means for employees in a time of hybrid and remote work. In all her projects she combines her artistic skills with an anthropological lens.

Exhibitions & fairs with the gallery:
Traverse
Solastalgia

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