ERIKA DEFREITAS
  • Artworks
  • Selected Exhibition views
    • Erika DeFreitas: close magic (solo) 2021
    • everything she inspires remains, belongs to light
    • an object, a gesture, a scene II (solo) 2020
    • an object, a gesture, a scene (solo) 2019
    • It is now here that I have measured and gathered yes. (solo) 2019
    • Almost, always, at once. (solo) 2018
    • I'll be your Mirror (group) 2018
    • to prepare for a longing, an itch (solo) 2018
    • Like a conjuring (solo) 2018
    • Migrating the Margins (group) 2017
    • Impossible Gardens (solo) 2017
    • Like a conjuring (solo) 2017
    • ; it was in the air, as they say. (solo) 2016
    • The work of mourning (solo) 2015
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Deaths/Memorials/Births

Newspaper and Digital Photography on Archival Photo Paper
2006-2007
This body of work has a current run available on Kozuke Paper, 2013
I collected the obituary section from the Toronto Star, as they were read by me starting in November 2006. I kept track of words that resonated with me each day by writing them down and noting what column and row they were located on. Once I completed this daily process, I would work with the selected words to create a metaphorical narrative that was representative of a memory that had been created. I cut out the selected words, as well as all of the death notices - leaving behind the borders that framed them and the lines that separated them. Once this stage was completed, I taped the selected words back into the column and row where they were originally located. The final product of this action was digitally photographed as a means of questioning authorship, absence, and the limits of time. There are 50 photographs in this series.
Documentation by Daniel Ehrenworth
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  • Artworks
  • Selected Exhibition views
    • Erika DeFreitas: close magic (solo) 2021
    • everything she inspires remains, belongs to light
    • an object, a gesture, a scene II (solo) 2020
    • an object, a gesture, a scene (solo) 2019
    • It is now here that I have measured and gathered yes. (solo) 2019
    • Almost, always, at once. (solo) 2018
    • I'll be your Mirror (group) 2018
    • to prepare for a longing, an itch (solo) 2018
    • Like a conjuring (solo) 2018
    • Migrating the Margins (group) 2017
    • Impossible Gardens (solo) 2017
    • Like a conjuring (solo) 2017
    • ; it was in the air, as they say. (solo) 2016
    • The work of mourning (solo) 2015
  • CV
  • News
  • Things to Read
  • Contact