Simone Schardt
Simone Schardt was born in Spremberg, Germany, in 1971. She lives and works between Zürich and Berlin.
Deeply delicate, Simone Schardt’s work is consistently on paper: formally reduced drawings and collages, usually on ruled notebook pages, index cards, and standardized preprinted forms. Her pencil drawings and typewriter typographies generated from abbreviations, letters, concepts, punctuation marks, vectors and geometric ornaments manifest a coming together of a conceptual aesthetic of information and psychoanalytical diagrams that reveal subjectivity as a semantics produced in and by the mechanisms of the linguistic. The schematic depictions refer to the unconscious, which structures the relationship between the artist, the work, and its reception.
In doing so, Schardt explores the interstices between what is visible and what is utterable. She draws from texts written by marginal figures among the canons of psychoanalytical thinking, particularly those of women researchers, but shifting the way she uses the tools she encounters, knowing full well that their application is linked to what can be said and seen in a given moment. Her thoroughness in the treatment of her works, her sparing uses of color, her exploration of different temporalities (the time of something being seen and of it being understood; the time of something being read and its practice) contribute to the density that emerges from her work.
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