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.
 
On 28 October 2022, Gallery Vriend of Bavink opened the exhibition ' Vier-en-dertig ondergaande zonnen' ('Thirty-four setting suns'). An exhibition that can be seen as an ode to the artist Bavink from a novel by Nescio. Bavink went mad trying to capture the beauty of the everyday in his art. Moments of alienation, beauty, humour, relatability that pass. Moments that are fleeting and as a result lost in the many. Memories that seem irrelevant gain meaning when reshaped; images that unobtrusively pass through life turn out to gain meaning when approached.

In the group exhibition '' Vier-en-dertig ondergaande zonnen', artists each play with this fact in their own way. Images that pass us form the structures in which we move every day, the everyday that - day in, day out - presents itself as the normal, carries a beauty that is difficult to capture.

'Vier-en-dertig ondergaande zonnen' with work by Aldo van den Broek, Johnny Mae Hauser,  Arjan van Helmond, Paul Kooiker, Mauric van Tellingen, Azul Ehrenberg, Penelope Umbri.