ERIKA DEFREITAS
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    • 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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The Impossible Speech Act

Archival Injet Prints
2007
A possible solution for my fear of the void that death created and my preoccupation with mourning was to preserve what I could of my relationship with my mother, to make it into something tangible, something permanent.  In my search for this tangibility I thought of the concept of the death mask; a sculptural object that acts as a substitution, fixing an image in place. By involving my mother in this process, I thought of it as a way to outlast the inevitable, this is also illustrated by Brault and Naas who state that, “Citing the other speaking of death – allows the dead a sort of survivance – a kind of living on- before their actual death – as if they had found a way not simply to utter some prophetic intimation of their own death but to enact the impossible speech act […].”
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