Intermedia Artist
b. 1975, Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in London and the Dedham Vale, England
Adorning the edges of a nether-land between actual and imagined places, infected by altered consciousnesses, mutability, and disappearance, Micha Eden Erdész is a post-conceptual artist guided by a desire to traverse interior and exterior worlds, as much as diverse media. His Intermedia practice ranges from artistic research, to working in diverse media such as painting, photography, video and sculpture. Different media stands for different lived realities: sense, visual comprehension, intellectual understanding or even supernatural sensation. In the respective works, he creates new spaces of experience for different aspects of reality. These are encoded in a language of Intermedial translations, thus forming own questions and connectivity between chronologically and phenomenologically disparate gestures. Making art as a visioning process can point to a hidden layer of knowledge about the future and the viewer is invited to decipher the work, offering an escape into the artist’s future oriented imagination and, or speculation. Erdész’s general interest in prediction and portent includes psychological synchronicity (Carl Gustav Jung) the post-minimalist “Pictures Generation” artist Jack Goldstein, 14th Christian mystic Julian of Norwich, as well as Jewish mysticism.