Iris Eichenberg
Jeweller
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MunichSchmuckFair2025
Published: 27.08.2020
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Statement
On makingAssuming that making is a traceable process, I try to trick myself and take an objective look at my working procedure. Well, that feels like telling a joke to yourself: it is not funny and it does not work.
So how do I work? I collect things, pile them up, listen to them talk to one another, striking up conversations. I introduce strangers to each other, urge them to meet, giving them a space in which to get to know each other. I rearrange them, and change the direction of their conversations. I collect and order, trying to find the key to what is hidden in objects and materials. I surround myself with things that trigger and provoke me.
I sense a narrative and I make it up while working. I could say that I try to sharpen a blurry picture; I work my way towards something that only comes into being because I sense its existence. I am not loyal to my hidden stories: they serve me as crutches, but as soon as I can walk I leave them behind, and I observe the battle of my narrative and the materials I wove into it.
Fusing and melting the ugly and the beautiful, merging the seductive and the repulsive, just to reach the moment of what is, after all, a form of beauty. A beauty that challenges, that may not be pleasing, but that offers the comfort of an ongoing endeavor.
/ Iris Eichenberg, 2010
CV 
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Events
Publications
Iris Eichenberg: Rhizome
Exhibition
/ 27Aug2011 - 24Sep2011Ornamentum Gallery
Hudson, United States
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