Eden Mitsenmacher
40x40x10 cm, digital drawings printed of stickers
With this box I aim to contextualize ordinary found objects by drawing them and creating a sticker out of the drawing. Investigate the affective qualities that are inherent in domestic items, such as socks, plants, fruit and challenging the mundane conventions associated with these objects. Investigate concepts relating to idiosyncratic relationships with domestic space, craft and collecting.
Eden Mitsenmacher (born in 1987 in the USA) lives and works between Rotterdam and Tel Aviv. She holds a BA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MA from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI), the Netherlands. Her work has been presented in numerous international exhibitions and festivals, including the Istanbul Biennial, Van Abbemuseum (Netherlands), Holon Design Museum, Liverpool Biennial, Arebyte Gallery (London), ANILOGUE – Animation Festival (Budapest), Internationales KurzFilmFestival (Hamburg), and many others.
Her multidisciplinary practice combines performance, video, and installation to address social, political, and cultural issues through a critical yet engaging lens. She uses pop culture both as a framework for social and personal critique and as a tool for accessibility and familiarity. Her work plays on the boundaries between sincerity and ambiguity, between the personal and the shared. Emotions like love, loneliness, and longing are taken at face value, only to become points of systematic, collective investigation. The banal becomes serious—and vice versa.
She constructs hyper-worlds built from cultural stereotypes and clichés, often pushed to the edge of emotional overload. Kitsch is a conscious strategy in her practice. Drawing inspiration from daily observations and first-hand experiences, she explores doubt, curiosity, and the potential for new value systems—and their unpredictable future expressions—in response to the tensions of the present.
Website: edenmitsenmacher.net
Her multidisciplinary practice combines performance, video, and installation to address social, political, and cultural issues through a critical yet engaging lens. She uses pop culture both as a framework for social and personal critique and as a tool for accessibility and familiarity. Her work plays on the boundaries between sincerity and ambiguity, between the personal and the shared. Emotions like love, loneliness, and longing are taken at face value, only to become points of systematic, collective investigation. The banal becomes serious—and vice versa.
She constructs hyper-worlds built from cultural stereotypes and clichés, often pushed to the edge of emotional overload. Kitsch is a conscious strategy in her practice. Drawing inspiration from daily observations and first-hand experiences, she explores doubt, curiosity, and the potential for new value systems—and their unpredictable future expressions—in response to the tensions of the present.
Website: edenmitsenmacher.net