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Deep Sky Survey

A new solo show by Lyndi Sales titled Deep Sky Survey
runs from the 7th June – 12 July 2012
at WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery…

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Passive Surveillance

A new solo show by Lyndi Sales titled Passive surveillance opens in Paris on the 21st October…

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SLICK 11

Lyndi Sales will be showing an installation at SLICK 11, Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris
17th – 23rd October…

159/295 Salzburg

3000 x 150 x3000 mm (H x W x L). Medium paper, Vilene, bamboo, string and wood. 2007

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An Introduction To Satellite Telescope By Thembinkosi Goniwe

Satellite Telescope makes reference to a satellite that was sent into space from Kenya in 1970. The success of this satellite through innovative radiation technology revealed the great wonders of an infinite universe beyond our own world …

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The Door in the Wall” An Introduction To Satellite Telescope By Genevieve Wood

Lyndi Sales is an artist whose concern with manners of perception and the possibilities of alternative realities results in complex, treacherously intricate installation works in a variety of often re-commissioned media …

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Participation In The 54th Venice Biennale

Lyndi Sales has been selected to participate in the 54th Venice Biennale …

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Drawing Now Paris

Lyndi Sales will be exhibiting at Female Landscapes, Drawing Now Paris, Le Salon Du Dessin Contemporain, Paris. From 24 to 28 March 2011 …

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Astronomical Seeing Exhibition Catalogue

Download the catalogue for the Astronomical Seeing exhibition here …

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An Introduction To Astronomical Seeing By Sarah Khan

Within the works currently presented by Lyndi Sales under the title Astronomical Seeing graphical-geometrical forms prevail: hexagons and diamonds, spirals, nets, satellite-like and star-shaped figures …

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Audience Installation At The CHIC Dessin Art Fair, Paris

I created Audience an installation for CHIC Dessin Art Fair, Paris …

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Artist’s Statement For Blur Zone Exhibition

Vision, perception and the imagination are in my focus momentarily. An eye condition began my investigation into eyesight dilemmas and perceptual associations occurring due to astigmatism …

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Optical Window, Gestalt Universe, Gallery MOMO

An installation created at Gallery Momo …

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Interview With Cecilie Bepler, Copenhagen

Cecilie Bepler: You work with a different kind of material or mixed media but in this exhibition you show some of your paper collages. Could you tell me a bit about your work process? …

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Artist’s Statement For in transit Exhibition

The moment of death is significant as a transient period, a passing over. Bardo is a Tibetan word literally meaning “intermediate state” or “in-between state”. It refers to the forty-nine day period after death …

Flight Path 7

845 x 1150 mm. In-flight safety brochure paper and pins. 2008

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An Introduction To in transit By The Toomey Tourell Gallery

Dual nature or fantastic illusions, the stagings of the South African Lyndi Sales take us elsewhere. The third dimension is created with the most fragile of matters, paper. Her works remind us of the …

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Katherine Jacobs Reviews The TRANSIenT Exhibition

Memory is often imagined as a particularly frail and erratic filing system; one which inexplicably loses information, erases bits at random and allows its contents to become blurry or faded. As one psychologist bluntly conceives it, ‘our memories develop holes, like an old pair of curtains that is being eaten by moths’ …

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TRANSIenT Exhibition Catalogue

Download the catalogue for the TRANSIenT exhibition here …

Shatter (Detail)

2000 x 2000 mm. 159 SAA Boarding passes and pins. 2008



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Michael Smith Introduces TRANSIenT Exhibition - “Vulnerability in our DNA: the work of Lyndi Sales”

Contemporary culture deals with the trauma of airplane crashes in a very particular manner. Sense is imposed on the aberration that such events represent, usually through the application of narratives onto the tragedies …

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Creating Paperworks At The Dieu Donne Papermill, NY

I spent some time at the renowned Dieu Donne Papermill in NewYork …

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Artist’s Statement For 1 in 11 000 000 Chances Exhibition

Paper presented by Lyndi Sales for a seminar at the University of Cape Town 2010. …

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