Death by Tupperware / Muerte por Tupperware, 2005

Daniela Edburg

Daniela Edburg depicts characters experiencing extravagant deaths as a result of overindulging in vain pursuits. Inspired by classic monster movies, Edburg created an enthralling, manga-like scene in Death by Tupperware where a woman is being strangled by a monster living in her refrigerator. By exaggerating the glamour of often horrific, unseen and short-lived events, Edburg challenges the viewer to find the beauty in fleeting and transitory moments.

About the Artist

Daniela Edburg is a Mexican artist born in Texas in 1975.  She studied Visual Arts in the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City.

Her photographic fictions are the result of collaboration with friends and acquaintances, in recent years her practice has extended to the integration of textile elements. The main focus of her work is the human connection with the natural through the artificial.

Seeking to create connections from feeling out of place, Daniela has done artist residencies in Iceland, Spain, France, the Rocky Mountains of Canada 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 Art Museum of Denver and independent spaces such as Cherryhurst House.

Among her most recent group exhibitions are Mi Tierra, Contemporary Artists Explore Place at the Denver Art Museum, Point / Counterpoint: Contemporary Mexican Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and Uncontainable Portraits at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Her work has been acquired for public collections such as the Collection of the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington D.C, the Museum of Latin American Art in California, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, Norway.

Since 2017, she is a fellow of the National System of Creators with the support of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts of Mexico (SISTEMA NACIONAL DE CREADORES, FONCA-CONACULTA).