2019 / primary exhibition
Erika DeFreitas
Erika DeFreitas’ multidisciplinary 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, among others. She is a recipient of the 2016 Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Finalist Artist Prize, the 2016 John Hartman Award, and was longlisted for the 2017 Sobey Art Award.
From the Archives
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2018 / juried call
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2017 / juried call
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2017 / juried call
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2023 / core / exhibition / outdoor
Erika DeFreitas
This Unfathomable Weight, Movement Three: The MiraculousTkáron:to-based artist Erika DeFreitas engages with ritual and the divine feminine in the concluding program of This Unfathomable Weight, a three-part exhibition across the UTM campus and billboards in Mississauga that grapples publicly with making sense of living through recent crises. Through an understanding of trauma as a rupture in meaning-making, the project carves out space for reparative gestures across personal, societal, and spiritual registers.