Erika harrsch biography

BIO. Erika Harrsch (México, 1976).
Born in Mexico City, Harrsch has lived in several cities throughout the country, as well as Italy, Germany, and Brazil; for the past fourteen years she has.
Born in Mexico City, Erika Harrsch has lived and worked in Mexico, Italy, Germany and New York.

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Born in Mexico City, Harrsch has lived in several cities throughout the country, as well as Italy, Germany, and Brazil; for the past fourteen years she has lived and worked in New York City. She has been defined as a multidisciplinary artist, employing traditional mediums along with new media and technologies to articulate her concepts and interests.

The formal aspects of her oeuvre and languages investigate diverse fields to achieve visual, multisensory, and interactive experiences: a comprehensive reflection about the body and identity, sexuality, desire, the space that defines us and the one we wish for, the limits and vertiginous freedom that lead to a continuous corporeal and ideological migration.

Harrsch’s solid background as a painter has been essential and visible in her aesthetic process, and her artwork is continually being filtered through images, the representation of the object, spaces, and colors; the work stems from experimentation and the processes themselves, and only later becomes articulated. These visual and formal processes are infused with multilayer

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On view through November 17, 2019 at the Denver Art Museum

Eyes On: Erika Harrsch features a single contemporary interactive installation titled Under the Same Sky… We Dream. Harrsch, who is based in New York and was born and raised in Mexico City, first exhibited Under the Same Sky… We Dream in El Paso in 2017. The installation also was featured at B3: The Biennial of the Moving Image in Frankfurt, Germany, that same year.

Harrsch’s installation offers a place of reflection that acknowledges the children who have crossed the border between Mexico and the U.S. The multimedia exhibition uses photography, animation, visual language, and musical performance to capture current cultural, political, and environmental issues faced by children of refugees and undocumented immigrants.

The installation is presented in a darkened space that is separated by a hanging screen. The silhouette of the screen is cut to resemble the borderline between the U.S. and Mexico with a video of clouds passing by. Visitors are prompted to enter the space and pass undernea

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Erika Harrsch

Harrsch is a New York–based multidisciplinary artist; she was born and raised in Mexico City, and has lived in Italy, Germany, and Brazil. Her pieces are infused with multilayered references and narratives concerned with individual and cultural preoccupations, as well as critical political and environmental issues.

For Harrsch, migrating is an existential and creative necessity. She combines the art, science, and politics of human and animal migration through the metaphor of the monarch butterfly, whose migratory route and very existence are connected to human concerns and actions. For years she has followed the migration patterns of these fascinating creatures and has frequently travelled back and forth across the US-Mexico border. Her voyages, however, require a passport and are regulated by border patrol; she cannot transcend the border like the monarch butterfly.

Harrsch’s work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions, including shows at the Denver Art Museum (Denver, Colorado), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, Massachusetts), Whitney Museu