Exhibitions

TR ERICSSON: IS THIS YOU?

Neue Welt / 507 Hagan St., Studio C October 4 - 26th

TR Ericsson

Neue Welt is pleased to present TR Ericsson: Is This You?

Is This You? is the title of an enlarged, altered, but faithful facsimile of a greeting card I sent to my grandmother over twenty-five years ago. Is This You? is the title of a poem she wrote on the back of the card.

The art I make always begins like this, with an archive of inherited objects and so could reasonably be thought of as being about myself and my family. However, reflecting on this for a long time now I know there are many other things going on alongside the purely personal aspects of the work.

Each artifact that I’ve saved is only a small trace of something, some moment in time in the life or lives of individuals that I knew and loved. The works of art made from these trace fragments and the context they are presented in add other layers of thought and meaning to the work, so much so that I began to think the question from the poem on the card, Is This You? is in fact a perfect question.

Is this my family in these small relics made from relics? Is the work I do, in part, who I am? And when a stranger sees this, what do they see? What part, or portion of themselves comes forward to answer the most obvious and reasonable question, what is this?