Over the past 15 years, German artist Martin Eder’s exhibitions in Europe and the US have attempted to critique how capitalism is obsessed with nudity to sell everything. In his debut exhibition that started on December 5 at Gallery Isa at Fort, however, he chooses to dissipate all cutesy, paradisiacal notions of nature. Owls with eerily vacant eyes, wilting flowers arranged artificially like they often are in bouquets -- think kitschy, think bleak, and you get what Eder is trying to say through his nine works titled, Monsters of Silence.

In Monsters of Silence, Martin Eder has explored the monstrosity and the artificiality we subject nature to