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EVENT DESCRIPTION
Memories can merge and open portals. The landscapes I create are ‘memory souvenirs’; collected fragments from my personal history existing in one space. These pieces layer on top of one another, much like the way memories settle in our minds. Memories are both fleeting and eternal. My practice lies in searching for different ways to document these moments. I use the terms landscapes and collage interchangeably and I treat them as notes to my past, present, and future self.”
By means of ritualistic note-taking, I recollect the past and record the present. I memorialize these notes by symbolizing them using ciphers and obscure forms. By creating reimagined landscapes and placing these depictions within them, I give my memories a physical space to live in.
Drawing to me is an act of meditation, repetition, intuition, obsession, compulsion. Both an escape and a necessity. Printmaking is a practice of patience, rhythm, reflection, endurance, solace. They are not mere mediums of making, but rather necessary rituals that are extensions of my recording practice. Through my works, I invite viewers to contemplate what it means to remember.
Erika’s artwork has been displayed internationally, with exhibitions held across the United States, including in New York, Philadelphia, Illinois, Georgia, and California, as well as in the Philippines (Quezon City), Germany (Hamburg), the Netherlands (Eindhoven), Indonesia (Jakarta), and Hong Kong.
ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER
Erika Shiba is a Japanese printmaker and drawer born and raised in Hong Kong. She received her BFA in 2018 from Parsons School of Design in New York for Illustration with a minor in Printmaking and received her MFA in Printmaking at Illinois State University in 2021. Record-keeping, home(s), cryptology, and memory are at the core of Erika’s research.Erika recollects the past and records the present. She memorializes these intangible moments by symbolizing them using ciphers and obscure forms. By creating untouchable landscapes and placing these depictions within them, she gives memories, which oftentimes can be romanticized or skewed, physical space to live in.
Details
- Start:
- 18 January
- End:
- 9 February
- Admission:
- Free
- Event Category:
- Ink & Drawing, Painting