In painting the initial works for the show, I realised much of the conversations I was having seemed to be about the intersectionality of grief, labour, and category – how those factors determined the kind of lives that were to be lived by the human, wild, and domesticated beings of the farm. What is our responsibility to the non-human beings who are products of our agricultural systems? I took the responsibility of what I had learned and saw very seriously, while sitting with the understanding that these exchanges are continuously complexifying and personal. Much of the questions and concerns raised here are topics I had spent much of my life attempting to grasp. It chronicles two years spent living on a small diversified livestock farm.
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KL: This series of work is very special to me. SC: What is the thinking behind the selection of works included in your upcoming exhibition at Pilar Corrias? Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London It was a new feeling of openness and communion, one that I think drives motivation to seek alternative forms of learning in the future. I completed a BFA, but rarely felt connected or excited in that environment, so going to Skowhegan in 2019 was huge for me. I think I started making things because of that feeling. I loved the feeling of surprise that came with watching him piece them together. He arranged his figures in ways I didn’t expect. When I was young, I watched my twin brother draw comics.
I am often overwhelmed by everything I still want to learn. It took a while for me, as it does for many artists, to figure out the practices that best communicate what feels important. I have been making images for so long, but truthfully only recently began to feel responsible and happy with them. Kat Lyons: The visual language is my first and the one I feel most comfortable communicating through. Something Curated: Can you give us some insight into your background and how you first became interested in art-making? To learn more about the artist, her fascinating practice, and the upcoming show with Pilar Corrias, Something Curated spoke with Lyons. Her theatrical vignettes of animals and insects are wrought with an eeriness that is indicative of the anxiety and grief materialised amongst non-humans living in the Anthropocene. In her compelling paintings, she explores what interconnectedness might mean for the inhabitants of the farm who are not directly cared for, from ant colonies to an out of commission horse. Through her work, the artist challenges the normalisation of this emotion, suggesting that it is not a defect to be remedied. On the farm, facing grief offers the chance to combat the harmful systems that leave animal husbandry often irresponsibly managed.
Titled Early Paradise, this will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK, showing thirteen paintings based on Lyons’ experiences living on a small, diversified livestock farm. Opening on 9 December 2021 and running until 15 January 2022, London gallery Pilar Corrias is set to present an exhibition of new work by American artist Kat Lyons at their Savile Row site.
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