Hadassah Emmerich
Substitutionary Seduction (2020)
“Body and identity, the sensory and the sensual, the commodification of the erotic and the exotic: these are frequently recurring themes in Hadassah Emmerich’s work. The sensuality of her painting resides not only on the surface of the (erotic) image, but also in her refined use of color and technical execution. Since 2016, Emmerich has worked with a new painting technique, using stencils cut from vinyl flooring, which she covers with ink and then impresses onto canvas, paper or a wall. Referring to the visual language of advertising and Pop art, she creates images that both aestheticise and problematize the female body. She depicts the paradox of simultaneous attraction and repulsion, intimacy and cool detachment, seduction and critique”.
(from a text by Nina Folkersma)
photography: courtesy of Suprainfinit
Hadassah Emmerich Biography
Hadassah Emmerich (b. 1974, Heerlen, The Netherlands), lives and works in Brussels. She received her Master degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London (2005) and graduated from Higher Institute for Fine Arts, in Antwerp, Belgium (2000) and from Academy of Fine Art, in Maastricht, NL (1997). Solo exhibitions include: Part II: What If Women Ruled the World?, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, (upcoming 2024); Botanical Body Bliss, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam (2023); Beating Around the Bush #7: False Flat, one of four solo presentations, Bonnefanten, Maastricht (2022); radioactive mother tongue, Manifold Books, Amsterdam (2021); Body Talk, Whitehouse Gallery, Lovenjoel (2021); The Great Ephemeral Skin, De Garage, Mechelen (2021); Ulterior Motives, C&H Gallery, Amsterdam (2017); Ornament und Verbrechen, Palais Aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt (DE) (2010); Exopolis (Kembali ke Jakarta), Erasmus Huis, Jakarta (2010); La Charmeuse de Serpents, Hendershot gallery, New York (2010). Group shows include: Figuring desire, reshaping monstrosity, Suprainfinit gallery, Bucharest (2023); KISS MY SOUL, Museum Dordrecht; EARTH, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam; Borderline, between a line and a border, Kunstraum Brussels, curated by Valentine Himpens; Kunsthal Kade Amersfoort (NL); Recurrent Effervescence, duo show with Luca Vanello, Whitehouse Gallery Lovenjoel (B); Rhapsody in Blue, Villa Zéphyr, Westende, curated by Isolde de Buck; Limburg Biënnale, MARRES, Maastricht Zwischenräume; ROSALUX Berlin, curated by Cigdem Caglayan for Debsaysyes; NEW SAINTS, Waldburger Wouters gallery, Brussel; Art Jakarta, ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta; A Garden Party, Château Nour, Brussels; HISK Connection, KANAL- Centre Pompidou, Brussels, curated by Antony Hudek; What if women ruled the world, Garage Rotterdam, curated by Imke Ruigrok (2019).