Jill Kiddon

Jill Kiddon’s sculptures and expansive installations seem like relics of our present, uniting in their materiality not only the duality of man and nature, but also that of creation and destruction. These dualities become tangible through materials as diverse as aluminium, concrete and earth, plastic, cables, discarded items of clothing or dried flowers. Kiddon creates filigree constructions and keeps them in a fragile balance.  Like an archaeologist, she tracks down the traces of our time, casts them in different materials, combines or alienates them, and thus forms poetic bodies to which we relate our own existence automatically.

For her exhibition Lux Ore at the Schaufenster junge Kunst, Jill Kiddon has developed two interrelated installations that take the closely interwoven relationship between natural resources and technological progress as their starting point, questioning both our dependence on energy and our insatiable hunger for it. The works are an expression of Kiddon’s interest in the material nature of so-called critical metals – the indispensable raw materials of this progress. In particular, they focus on the processes that are existential to the functioning of our everyday lives: the ability of minerals to store, conduct and exchange energy.

Jill Kiddon, born in 1987 in Silver Spring, USA, studied Fine Arts at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Karlsruhe until 2014 and was a master student of Prof Marijke van Warmerdam. She has already been represented with her installations and sculptures in many exhibition projects, including at the Kunstverein Freiburg (2014), the Berlin project gallery +DEDE (2020) and the Simultanhalle Cologne (2022). In 2023, she won the Kallinowski Prize, which is awarded annually to a graduate of the Staatliche Kunstakademie Karlsruhe. Jill Kiddon lives and works in Berlin.

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