About
Kate Daudy is a visual and conceptual artist best known for her public interventions and large-scale outdoor sculptures. Working across a variety of media, she speaks several languages and often involves words in her work to critical and public acclaim. Working across a variety of medium she also writes. Boundlessly curious she is always learning and has long standing collaborations with scientists and thinkers. Although disruptive, Daudy’s work is full of optimism. Current world circumstances may seem dire, but the future is in our hands.
Daudy’s has invented her own font and 2 visual languages, as well as a way of noting musical scores. Kate Daudy’s project at the institute working title “Telling The Bees” looks at the history of humankind’s relationship with honey and bees. The artist explores themes of dialogue and communication, inviting us to think about what we might learn from nature to build a more harmonious future.
The project will culminate in a large scale exhibition and series of lectures at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. The work will include scientific research, experimental work with honey and other materials, intra-species dialogue with AI, a concrete poetry project, a house made of honey, biomorphic beehives built with indigenous people in the cloud forests of Alarachi as well as honey-tasting events and the creation of a perfume expressing the essential energy of honey. The exhibition will be accompanied by podcasts and an international seminar looking at the role of dialogue in personal, community and international affairs.
Her work is the subject of on upcoming retrospective exhibition at the Sorbonne university, Paris, opening February 28th, 2025. There will be a series of lectures delivered by Daudy at this time, and the catalogue will be published by Editions de la Sorbonne.
Currently fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Ideas and Imagination she has exhibited worldwide. Her work is on the national curriculum in Spain. Exhibitions include across the USA, Europe, Middle East and Asia, as well as in the UK at the Saatchi Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Southbank Centre, Museum of the Moving Image in NYC, Hayward Gallery and Saint Paul’s Cathedral.