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Artist Talk by Erika DeFreitas

Date
April 9, 2024
Location
100 McCaul St, Room 460
Indoor photography with 2 people and 3 chairs

Artist Talk by

Erika DeFreitas

  • Tuesday, April 9th, 1 to 2pm
  • 100 McCaul St, Room 460
  • No RSVP

 

Erika DeFreitas’s interdisciplinary practice includes performance, photography, video, installation, textiles, drawing and writing. Placing emphasis on gesture, process, the body, documentation and paranormal phenomena, DeFreitas mines concepts of loss, post-memory, legacy and objecthood. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg; Gallery TPW, Toronto; Project Row Houses and the Museum of African American Culture, Houston; Fort Worth Contemporary Arts; and Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita. DeFreitas holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto.

 

https://www.erikadefreitas.com/about

 

Organized by the f/6 Collective (OCADU’s IBPOC Photo Club)

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