Kaylie Kist (b. 1972, United Kingdom), lives and works in The Netherlands. She holds a BA in Fine Arts (1994) from Leeds Metropolitan University. UK, and has recently completed a Masters in Fine Arts, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (HKU), Utrecht. NL.
Kist works across a wide range of media including text, film, sonic, sculpture, video installation and live performances. She uses writing as a foundation for her research, often taking us on journeys that are both uniquely personal and yet universal in their resonance. Concerned with Emotional and environmental trauma she explores the myriad of social, economic, gendered and political forces that not only inhabit us but also the social spaces in which we move.
Kist works to expose Interior and exterior geographies, material and emotional states, the porousness between the body and environment, what is (in)visible in terms of present time, hidden histories and speculative potentials and what remains out of sight?
Her past work, mostly of a photographic nature has focused on ideas surrounding identity, and the various performative spaces of ‘home’. Her last publication, Confines, addresses the borders of a female body, confined by domestic place, space and time, this also informed an integral part of her In-house exhibition. Kist has also contributed a number of group exhibitions: Material Identity at the A-Space Gallery. Hastings. UK (2019), Rye Creative Centre. The Summer Show, Rye. UK (2019). Portrait of Space, CREA Centrum. Amsterdam (2015), Video Positive. Warrington Museum & Art Gallery. Warrington. UK (1995) Group Exhibition. Degree Show, Leeds University Gallery. Leeds.UK (1994).
Kist has spent much of her life physically engaged with invisible and reproductive labour, and/or productive labour whilst living in the midst of financial and emotional precarity. Issues that remain embedded at the core of her practice.