The new KB Interview with former artist-in-residence Shoufay Derz is out! The artist gives exciting insights on her project “Ritual of Eels, Loving the Alien”, which started in Sidney and expanded to Berlin’s gardens and parks. Watch out for the green people!
Shoufay Derz is an Australian artist of Taiwanese and German descent. Comprising photography, sculpture and video installation, her practice is concerned with belonging, landscape, language and the unknown. She explores the limits and possibilities of language and the ambiguities faced when attempting to visually articulate the edges of the known. Deeply engaged with poetic potentiality, her projects attempt to connect the silences in language with holes in social, structural and geological landscapes to contemplate the voids of history and also the uncertainties of future landscapes. Recently her performative experiments have played with tactics of intuition and humour to convey stories of exclusion and collectivity, while delving into the transformative possibilities, impossibilities and risks of site-specific storytelling.
Camera: Peter Rosemann, Shoufay Derz
Interview: Camille Herding
Direction & editing: Arthur Debert
Shoufay Derz was artist-in-resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien between 2019-20 and lives and works in Berlin.
