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Uta Eisenreich

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Uta Eisenreich is an artist working with photography and performance. The core of her practice is an investigation of the incongruous relationship between thought and reality. Walking a fine line between common sense and uncommon nonsense, she systematically explores the familiar methods for understanding our presumed reality. As a common feature, both her photographic still lives and her performances utilize a table top (a metaphorical and literal tabula rasa) upon which archetypical objects are carefully placed.

Enigmatic compositions recall fleeting memories of elementary science, magic tricks, art history, assessment tests and optical illusions. The objects seem to animate one another, transforming into characters, suggesting underlying patterns that viewers are triggered to discern. Recently Eisenreich focuses more specifically on examining the nature of language.

Eisenreich’s work – ranging from photographs, video installations to performance pieces – has appeared in various exhibitions, for example in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Foam Amsterdam or the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Next to her autonomous practice, Eisenreich works on commissions. A few recent examples are the jury-nominated proposal round for a new metro station of the Amsterdam North-South Line (2013) commercial image campaigns for Turnover (2012/2014) or Hermès’ Petit H (2015).

Uta Eisenreich works and lives in Amsterdam, where she teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and is represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects.

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