Micha Eden Erdész (° 1975; Toronto, Canada) is an Intermedia artist and research graduate of Chelsea College of Arts, London, England. He currently lives and works in the Dedham Vale, AONB, England.
“The Darkride; vertical rides; the ravine. “
Engaging with Intermedia creation as an aesthetic kind of anchorite technology, Micha Eden Erdész’s artistic oeuvre, points to a subaltern layer of knowledge; some which may or may not be culture.
Erdész’s artistic practice is remarkably diverse. His discipline ranges from artistic research to working in various media such as painting, photography, video, and sculpture. The different techniques stand for diverse ways in which one can deal with a lived reality: through haptic, visual comprehension, through intellectual understanding or even supernatural sensation. In the respective works, he creates new spaces of experience for distinct aspects of reality. He encodes them in a separate language that is detached from references and thus forms its own language, its own mystery. This in turn invites a viewer to decipher it, offering a wonderful escape into the artist’s imagination.
“A singular cymbal remains in the same spot on the floor behind the bottom of the stairs; the massive weight of an underfloor safe door remains always open and always empty.” This is a fragment of the suburban visions of Toronto of Erdész‘s childhood. “The carpeted basement of a Downsview split-level house with a blue door: a redundant home bar, partially stocked by random liquors, and beverages.” Adorning the edge of a nether land of actual and imagined places, infected by altered consciousness(es), mutability, and disappearance, he is guided by a desire to traverse interior and exterior worlds, as much as diverse media.
Micha is currently studying a 2nd Masters in Jung and Post Jungian Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytical Studies at the University of Essex, England. He is seeking to combine his artistic work with research into Jungian themes.
Micha draws on influences as wide in scope as “Pictures Generation” artist Jack Goldstein, medieval devotional art and Jewish and (non-) Jewish esotericism.
