DANIELA EDBURG

United States, 1975

Daniela Edburg's work analyses certain aspects that define human nature, particularly the artificial world that human beings inhabit and the nonsense it generates. It reflects fictional scenarios that are extreme to the point of becoming contradictory. Edburg's creative process is neurotic, obsessive, full of uncertainties that are resolved by the work itself. Hence she is part of every stage of production, which helps her to concentrate on little things like knitting a kidney or baking a cake while working out an idea. Photography is the medium that allows her to capture the end product of this process.

In recent years Edburg has integrated knitted and crocheted objects into her work. Originally she used them to represent a variety of subjects: the creation of a safe place, creativity in its most basic form, an obsession channelled into an attempt to preserve mental health or a creation that destroys and consumes its creator, like Frankenstein's monster. It has now become a versatile medium that allows him to make smooth and absurd representations of almost anything. These objects, which are clearly artificial, become a simple form of handmade fiction. Daniela likes to work in the in-between, in that place between certainty and uncertainty, between the real and the imagined, the place where concepts twist and contradict, where opposites meet to complete their cycle.

Edburg studied Visual Arts at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City. She has held artist residencies in Iceland, Spain, France, the Canadian Rocky Mountains and the United States, thanks to the repeated support of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, the support of the Museé du Quai Branly, the Denver Art Museum and independent spaces such as Cherryhurst House. Her most recent group exhibitions include Mi Tierra, Contemporary Artists Exploring Place at the Denver Art Museum, Punto / Contrapunto: Contemporary Mexican Photography at the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts and Uncountable Portraits at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Since 2017, she has been a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores with the support of the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de México and her work has been acquired for public collections such as the Art Museum of the Americas Collection in Washington DC, the California Museum of Latin American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, Norway.

Lives and works in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.

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