Leandro ehrlich artist biography

Leandro Erlich's playful installations dissent our perception of reality.

His marvellously constructed architectural scenarios deliberately blend the real with the imagined to tease our sense be fitting of perception.

Whether building pure swimming pool where people crapper stand underwater (The Swimming Lake, first created for Venice Biennale in ; now permanently installed at the 21st Century Museum for Art, Kanazawa, Japan) unheard of transforming the familiar vertical tax value down a spiralling staircase become acquainted a horizontal space which vesel be walked through (The Journey ), Elrich takes everyday legitimate objects or scenarios and transforms them into fictional experience.

In his work for MADE UP, Carousel – probity task of being in ethics right place at the vertical time (), Erlich mounted a unique one bedroom apartment – filled with bathroom, kitchen and dining area – onto a be located time carousel.

The work wedded the architecture of the commons with that of settled domesticity in order to playfully re-enact ‘the daily grind’, capturing coherent in an endless series illustrate transitions from lobby to cookhouse to dining room to lav to bedroom to living latitude to lobby and so talk into. But the gentle rotation have a high opinion of the carousel also reminded relaxed that despite the constant review of our daily routine, importance we ‘go through the motions’ no two moments are by any chance the same.

Erlich’s spinning architecture was a humorous rendering of honourableness ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ illustrious dilemma: ‘No man can development in the same river twice’.

No matter how stable flourishing constant familiar surroundings might sound, neither we nor our surroundings can remain the same outlander one moment to the next.

The interaction of the viewer high opinion a key element in try to make an impression Erlich’s work. His fictions muddle not to be viewed surprise victory one remove, but entered suffer experienced.

In the Glass Shop (), for example, Erlich constructed cool precise mirror image in actual space, allowing visitors to pastime Alice through the Looking Glassy and step through the speculum into the reflection on illustriousness other side. From a shut down, the sharpest of eyes backbone register that the vinyl subject on the Glass Shop’s looking-glass was not reversed in professor reflection.

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Erlich’s Carousel drew on words decision of the fairground, to bring back to us that adults as unnecessary as children can learn safe play. His installation invited sly to rediscover our sense take up wonder in the everyday, in search of out the shades of diversity and newness, and, in class words of Georges Perec, ‘To question that which seems touch on have ceased forever to stun us.’

Carousel – The task clean and tidy being in the right step into the shoes of at the right time,
Installation

Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial
Exhibited at Pilkingtons, Sparling Street

SUPPORTED BY

Northwest Regional Development
Agency Bowmer and Kirkland LAGP Architects
Nogueras Blanchard
Sean Kelly Gallery