AZUL EHRENBERG
Azul Ehrenberg (Mexico / Netherlands, 1997) is an interdisciplinary artist based in between Amsterdam and Mexico. In her work she dominantly uses a combination of selfmade paper, visual poetry and moving image. Personal archives and self shot images are often at the core of her works. But as past and present narrations are an integral part of life, she also explores the impact these can have on our perception by intervening existing content, in order to create a new context or form.
Her working method has never followed a classical structure, but has evolved experimentally, touching upon topics such as heritage, memory; its illusions and the emotional and intellectual resonance such themes can evoke in the public. She invites the viewer to reflect upon solitude and the contrasts between modernity and tradition, drawing inspirations from personal and broader cultural themes and traditions. Often, she blurs the line between reality and imagination. It is her way to preserve the beauty of a certain originality that might otherwise perish in forgetfulness.
2022
Mixed printing techniques on handmade paper (agave, tule, papyrus).
Hd-video, 8.45 min.
Installation presented at Gerrit Rietveld graduation show, Indebt studio and Gallery vriend van Bavink.
‘Inheritance’ presents an intimate portrait of the memories specific landscapes can leave behind. Sometimes they are hard to define but often they are quiet concrete; the rivers, the stones, the hills or the variety of greens. Memories can turn into images and change, or even disappear. They’re to be found again in objects, places one encounters, in sounds and smells, or people who pass. Some of them remain engraved, like marks on one’s skin. They accompany us; they grow along with us, not static, but as a living link between what we were and what we have become. And not least, what we pass on personally and culturally.
Azul Ehrenberg printed her visible and invisible inheritance on paper she made herself by using agave plants, wild tulle and papyrus recollected in the Mexican village where she partly grew up in and spend her summers as a child.
