Leandro Erlich: The Confines of the Great Void

I like to introduce myself as a conceptual artist working in the realm of the real and perception. My subject matter is reality, symbols and the potential for meaning. I am committed to creating a body of work–especially in the public sphere–that opens itself to the imagination, subverts normality, rethinks representation and proposes actions that construct and deconstruct situations in order to disrupt reality. Speaking generally, my work functions as a narrative experience deployed in the public arena. I build visual stories from daily life that evoke an ordinary set of circumstances, both rooted in reality and shared experience, but that don’t function as expected. I like to develop projects that push the conceptual threshold of the audience, and I enjoy working with a variety of media and modes of expression. My work encompasses installations, objects, sculptures, videos and even painting. I create structures that trigger images and ideas that, in turn, point towards new realities. I like to consider these pieces as relational devices that inspire interaction and play amongst the viewers. I understand art as a medium for cultivating new approaches to understanding the world–physical, mental, political, symbolic.   – Leandro Erlich

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