American University of Kuwait: campus-wide exhibition, workshops and lecture. March 2022

The renowned visual artist was invited to take over the campus of the university with an immersive art work. Concerned with the fuel required to send the work over to Kuwait from the UK and its carbon footprint, Daudy experimented with the idea of sending the whole show over as files, and having the work made there on site.

The title refers to lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem The Wasteland.

At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives

Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,

The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights

Her stove, and lays out food in tins.

Underlining the connection between the everyday (here referred to in The Wasteland) and the sublime which is at the heart of Daudy’s work, she referred to historic astronomical cartography and celestial maps, sending her original work over as files which were then CNC engraved into two materials: perspex and plaques of local wood she went and sourced upon her arrival.

The artist also 3d printed bas reliefs in to sand, using a new resin. These bas relief works were then separated out upon the artists departure at the end of the exhibition. The sand was put back into the Kuwaiti desert, and the resin back in the jar.

with an art exhibition that showed on every screen, turned the main courtyard into an iteration of Daudy’s celebrated work “All You Had to do Was Stay” from the permanent collection of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK. There was an exhibition, workshops, lectures from Daudy and her collaborator Kostya Novoselov, and Daudy even designed student notebooks.

https://www.aiu.edu.kw/news/at-the-violet-hour

Humanity, Connection, Curiosity. Kate Daudy

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