Manon van den Eeden’s artistic practice departs from the versatile formality of everyday objects and our encounters with them. She’s interested in the thin line between reality and fiction, the visible and invisible and the ambiguity between form and function. In her work she manipulates existing forms into sculptures and installations that hover between the strange and the familiar. In a making process that alternates between digital and manual labor, elements are parsed, magnified, distorted, merged or multiplied, resulting in a visual language dominated by careful compositions and glossy surfaces, evoking both personal associations and distance