Monstera Deliciosa | FIKRA GRAPHIC DESIGN BIENNIAL

Monstera Deliciosa | FIKRA GRAPHIC DESIGN BIENNIAL

Vinyl adhesive on foam board, plants, and wood base with three-dimensional collage, 2018. Photos : Obaid Mohammed AlBudoor

Fikra Graphic Design Biennial 01: Ministry of Graphic Design
Former Bank of Sharjah Building, Sharjah, UAE
Artistic Directors: Prem Krishnamurthy, Emily Smith, Na Kim
9 – 30 November 2018

Taking its name from a tropical plant common to Brazil, Monstera Deliciosa is a three-dimensional collage built on-site by the artist over the course of one week. The work, whose name translates to ‘delicious monster’, combines found visual material from magazines with living plants. Different from each angle of observation, the living sculpture unfolds in multiple layers as visitors move around it. With this work, Eichner — who has been working for many years as a magazine illustrator — pulls images produced for mainstream media and a plant popular in interior decorating out of their usual roles as mass market goods. By bringing them into a unique spatial coexistence, they can be studied and appreciated as a complex environmental experience.