Erica Eriksson
Rana Plaza & Other Stories (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Project “Rana Plaza & other stories” pays tribute to the garment workers of Rana Plaza, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, many of whom lost their lives in the deadly collapse of the building 23 April, 2013. The current photographs are portraits of fictive individuals. The real garment workers of Rana Plaza were many employed by companies of the fast fashion industries of Western society.
The project is based on sculpting small dolls, turning small-scale models of the human figure into new life-like individuals, eventually capturing them in portrait photographs. The slow process and final images are not only tributes to the producers of the clothes many of us wear, that are part of our embodied identity-projects, but they are reflections on present day selfie-society where selfie-portraits come streaming in a ferocious speed through the channels. Do we reflect on the people we see in these in these numerous photographs; can we ever see a person’s true identity in the layers of embodied and constructed identities?
’Rana Plaza & Other Stories’ is a fine art photography project where the photographic medium is used for its’ real-life documentary qualities, to question the ways we think about and value human expression and identification.
AUTHOR
Erica Eriksson was born in 1980 in Södertälje, Sweden. She lives and works in Stockholm. Her educational background lies in both fine art and psychology. An interest in human embodied self-identification, search and growth form a natural foundation to all her artistic work.
Education
2011-2015 The Open University, Milton Keynes, BSc (Honours) Psychology
2006-2008 Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU, Norway, Master of Fine Art
2003-2006 Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU, Norway, Bachelor of Fine Art
2005 Royal Institute of Art (KKH), Stockholm, exchange student
2001-2003 Pernby School of Painting (Pernbys Målarskola), Stockholm
2000-2001 Stockholm University, History of Art
Educational courses
2006 Workshop in the Stucco Lustro technique, arranged by the Royal Insitute of Art, Stockholm
Exhibitions
2014 Summer Exhibition 2014, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2012 Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm
2011 Plutos kultursektor, "Vårsalongen", Stockholm
2008 Master of Fine Art Exhibition, 0047, Oslo
2008 Master of Fine Art Exhibition, Trondheim Art Museum
2006 Bachelor of Fine Art Exhibition, Gallery KiT, Trondheim
2006 Trøndelagsutstillingen (The Trøndelag Exhibition)
2005 Trøndelagsutstillingen
2005 Erica Eriksson & Louise Dorph, "Tell me a fable", Gallery Mejan, The Royal Insitute of Arts, Stockholm
Grants
2012 Elice Erlandssons stipendium
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