Grace Schwindt, ‘When I Remember Through You’, 2025
Presented by Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Presented by Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Grace Schwindt, When I Remember Through You, 2025
Presented by Galerie Peter Kilchmann
When I Remember Through You by Grace Schwindt is a quiet and powerful sculpture that explores memory, connection and transformation. Made from ceramic and bronze, the slightly larger-than-life figure embodies a nurturing moment of peace through the resonance of an imagined fusion of human, animal and plant forms. This convergence is driven by a deep, instinctive urge for support and connection that seems to rise from the core of nature, which perhaps is the ‘You’ that is remembered through.
The figure’s head is gently cradled in a bronze shell, grown from a long, continuous line that extends upward like a channel from deep within the earth. It offers quiet, grounding support, allowing the figure to radiate a sense of meditation and transformative stillness. The sculpture is turning away from dominant systems of knowledge, favouring instead tenderness and embodied connection as tools for healing.
The lower half of the figure, clothed in trousers and shoes, feels grounded and familiar, while the upper part undergoing a metamorphosis into something more abstract and undefined. A plant is climbing up the leg, increasingly fusing with the surface of the body and inhabiting it together with insects, perhaps imagining the body transforming into a landscape itself.
Throughout the work, everything gestures toward connection and the balancing of opposing forces. It reaches beyond separateness and logic, transforming its surfaces into melting, collective, organic landscapes. Schwindt sees this as a movement toward alternative forms of knowing – rooted in touch, care and attentiveness rather than control.
Schwindt’s wider practice spans sculpture, painting, performance, drawing and film. In recent years, she has explored how plants carry historical memory and how working with them reveals the fragility of our bond with nature. She challenges anthropocentric worldviews, calling for a more entangled understanding of the world where humans, animals and plants are deeply interconnected.
About Grace Schwindt
Grace Schwindt (b.1979, Offenbach, Germany; lives in London and Sicily), works with sculpture, painting, performance, drawing and film. In the past ten years, her solo exhibitions include ‘A History of Touch’ at Museum M, Leuven (2025); ‘Defiant Bodies’ at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2022/2023); ‘Your Movement’ at Kunsthal Gent (2022); ‘Five Surfaces All White’ at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; ‘In Silence’ at Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam (2019); ‘An Exhibition in Three Acts’ at MARCO, Vigo (2016) and in 2015 at Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Site Gallery, Sheffield and Tramway, Glasgow. Performances took place among others at EMST, Athens (2024), at CGAC, Santiago (2023), at Volksbühne Berlin (2019) and the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2016).
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Main image: Grace Schwindt, When I Remember Through You, 2025. Photography: Linda Nylind
