Getaway #15: Esther Kempf, 2016

– Is there a word like craftswoman? If so, Esther is one. A very good one, both in an artistic and a crafty sense. Also on a conceptual and a practical level. Maybe her approach to life and art is the proof that if you have an affinity to materials you start thinking differently. Like connecting your senses differently. It’s mechanisms that she might be specialist in. Mechanisms of perceiving, observing, crafting, and of arranging effects to causes.

If she could choose, she once told me, she would prefer to make surprise gifts for her friends instead of making art works. I saw her do a precise backflip into the Zurich Lake. This was part of her artistic practice. –

Text: Mirjam Bayerdörfer

Outside Sundays
Getaway #15: Esther Kempf
Sunday 17th April 2016, 2:30pm

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