Person:

Enora Cressan

Material researcher and designer

About the Artist

Enora's work is grounded in the exploration of residual, unstable, or devalued substances (she worked with dust, fish skin, rust, or plastic) as vectors of an ecology of attention. Through their transformation, these materials become hybrid and ambiguous surfaces of interrogation. They unsettle perception and open spaces for dialogue within contexts often distant from dominant ecological discourses.

Enora Cressan during Hydrocommons talking about her work "Anatomy of a Material", Feb 20 2026 -

Projects

In 2026, Enora becomes one of the first artists in residence of the year at Mediamatic where she develops and extends her research on waste materials. By collecting around Mediamatic's premises and the Oosterdok area with the intention to shift the negative connotation humans have with waste.

Previous works of Enora, include Du Sale, du Reste et du Diffus (Of Dirt, Residue and Diffusion) which explores processes of rust as a way of questioning our relationship to dirt and to what we consider to be the end of a material’s life. Along the scrapyards of Amsterdam - industrial cemeteries where the decaying remnants of construction materials accumulate, Enora sees how some forms begin to emerge as molds for new representations.