Kaddy Benyon
@kaddybenyon.bsky.social
Poet: Robbergirls (Salt, 2023), The Tidal Wife (Salt, 2018), Milk Fever (Salt, 2012). Rep’d by: Rosie Pierce at Curtis Brown.
Linda’s sonnet ingeniously picks up the materiality of @sophieherx.bsky.social’s opening collage and the developing argument of sonnets 2 & 3 (by @kaddybenyon.bsky.social & @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social) and focusses those in the graphic quality of a typewritten text - remember those? #ArtSonnetChain
Loved this list made manifesto from @kaddybenyon.bsky.social ’s sonnet about #EvaHesse: She wore her installations like a crown of bivalves, netted pomelos, glass-blown fishing floats caught in the drag tides of fear, of loss, of mockery… #ArtSonnetChain
Our second sonnet in the #ArtSonnetChain is an elegant, subtle study by @kaddybenyon.bsky.social of the work of #EvaHesse - a fascinating artist in terms of her seemingly unlikely uses of (then) unusual materials… newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/a... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies
Art Sonnet Chain, 2: Kaddy Benyon
after ‘Untitled or Not Yet’ (1966), by Eva Hesse The trouble with beauty is its uglinessyet without it, no encounter with truth.We cannot make groundbreaking art unlesswe refuse beauty’s ruthless p…
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