Micha Eden Erdész, b °1975 Toronto, Canada. Contemporary Artist / Reseacher

MRes Arts Practice (2014), Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London

Currently MA Jung and Post-Jungian Studies, University of Essex

British. Canadian. Israeli

Canadian-born Intermedia artist living and working nr. Hythe, Colchester GB

Micha Eden Erdész's artistic practice is remarkably diverse. It ranges from artistic research to working in various media such as painting, photography, video and sculpture. The different techniques stand for different ways in which one can deal with a lived reality: through sense, visual comprehension, through intellectual understanding or even supernatural sensation. In the respective works, he creates new spaces of experience for different aspects of reality. He encodes them in a separate language that seems to be detached from references and thus forms its own language, its own mystery. This in turn invites a viewer to decipher it, offering a wonderful escape into the artist’s imagination.

Artist’s Statement-
I am an artist with an interest in psychological synchronicity (Carl Gustav Jung) as a function of reality therefore meaningfulness in the world.

The Darkride, vertical rides: fairground vernacular - the ravine. A singular cymbal remains in the same spot on the floor behind the bottom of the stairs; the massive weight of an underfloor safe door remains always open and always empty. This is a fragment of the suburban visions of Toronto of my childhood. The carpeted basement of a Downsview split-level house with a blue door: a redundant home bar, partially stocked by random liquors, and beverages. Adorning the edge of a netherland of actual and imagined places, infected by altered consciousness(es), mutability, and disappearance, I am guided by a desire to traverse interior and exterior worlds, as much as diverse media. Engaging with Intermedia creation for me is a kind of contemporary-medieval anchorite technology. It points to a subaltern layer of knowledge; some which may or may not be culture.

Sylphen Trill, 2021, High Chelmer Shopping Centre, 22 meters length lycra, oil and lacquer on perspex, adhesive plastic, repurposed commercial furniture, oil on wall, 00:00:03 (loop) 1 channel video on electronic information point, Chelmsford, Essex

The Happy Games, 2021, On Joy and Disappointment exhibition with Angela Stauber, Kunstverein Ottobrunn, lycra, rubber component feet, original Munich 1972 Olympics waterpolo patches, Munich, DE

I still don't know when the Sacrifice is over [maquette], 2021-2020, oil on foam, air drying clay, grab adhesive, bubble wrap, pigment on silk, 00:00:08, 00:00:11, 00:01:33, 00:01:06 4 channel digital projection (loop)

Alarmings Separate [excerpt] - with Gemma Abbott, 2019, New Magical Realism exhibition, lamda print on metallic film, 00:02:45, 00:00:00 2 channel digital projection

Avon Carma, after ‘The Vision of St Eustace’ (Pisanello, 1395-1455), 2018 - 2016, Big Yellow Storage, oil and lacquer on unprocessed duratran film, aluminium, polyester resin, 00:00:06 video (loop) 1 channel digital projection, Colchester, Essex

Psychic Entry, 2015, Hearth and Heat solo show, silk, chrome fixtures, aluminium nesting trays, Florence Trust, Highbury, London

Moth [extract] - with Rebecca Snow, 2015, Hearth and Heat solo show, charcoal on cartridge paper by Rebecca Snow on ventilation duct, 00:06:23 1 channel digital projection

Fly with me, 2006, performance, fujiflex film, British Museum Stores, London N1

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