Installation
Visit Eva Duerden’s impressive installation, using familiar motifs in office carpets and night lights to create a nostalgic atmosphere and question traditions.
Eva Duerden – @eva.duerden (b. 1991, Bolton, UK, works and lives in Berlin) is a graduate of Central Saint Martins previously working in London and Co-founder of project space and Collective, 12ø, whose international project 30work30days engaged with thousands of artists from 40 countries. Previous exhibits include, ‘Another day, Another Archytype’ at Lewisham Art House (London), Resident at PIPE factory (Glasgow), ‘on plon air’ as part of Art Licks weekend (London) and ‘Nawki’, The Royal Standard (Liverpool). She has also been a guest lecturer for Liverpool John Moores University, and METAL and assisted curation at Focal Point Gallery (Southend). She has also worked with artist-led spaces and organisations across the UK to collaborate on best working practices.
Artist Statement:
Eva Duerden aims to create a perpetual feeling of novice-hood. The works employ symbols and aesthetics from memories, reamalgmating them to create novel approaches from the user/viewer, to create contradictions, double takes, and (mis)understandings. Fascinated by how we categorise and standardise objects, how they belong to hierarchies of value by mode, material, and context, determining their ‘correctness’, Eva aims to highlight the performativity that permeates these objects and, in turn, ourselves when we engage with them.