show-rooms

Catalyst Arts Digital Residency

7th - 13th September 2025

show-rooms by eva duerden as part of Catalyst Arts Digital Residency 2025 

7th - 13th September

‘show-rooms’ the first iteration of a project by eva duerden for the Catalyst Arts Digital Residency, using language from catalogues, early game design and rudimentary website building. These rendered spaces are made for curiosity, furnished with artifacts and clues, like showing a new friend around your room, looking for the tells, the easter eggs for what you are about, what is the stand in for the person when they are absent.

‘show-rooms’ are scenes for ejd*props muses, using the format of early ‘point and click’ games to provoke searching and physical printed catalogues like Argos. Experimenting with techniques used in catalogues, these scenes are supposed to suggest the person, create a familiarity, but also conjure the feeling of newness, the novelty of your new promised favorite thing, almost in reach. 

‘show-rooms’ can be accessed and investigated through the Catalyst website from 7th - 13th September. 

Eva Duerden, b. 1991, Bolton, UK, based in Berlin. Working in reimagining familiarity and functions for new appreciation of artifacts that we surround ourselves with, borrowing, blurring and destabilising perception, or understanding of them to try to approach naivety again and reassess the constructed value.