Leandro Erlich
“Coral Car (Sand)”, 2024
porcelana
porcelain
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21 x 51 x 23 cm
8.26 x 20.08 x 9.05 in
8.26 x 20.08 x 9.05 in
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Leandro Erlich’s work explores the artifices of visuality, through sensory and perceptual games. Everyday architecture is a recurrent theme in his work, with which he creates paradoxes between what we...
Leandro Erlich’s work explores the artifices of visuality, through sensory and perceptual games. Everyday architecture is a recurrent theme in his work, with which he creates paradoxes between what we believe and what we see, with situations of mystery and questioning. This transgression of limits destabilizes not only our absolute beliefs, but also the limits of art and the legitimizing institutions. Through installations, sculptures, photographs and videos, the artist simulates situations that dislocate our everyday experience and our understanding of the common.
The marine environment has been a recurring theme in Erlich’s recent work. The sculpture Coral Car (2024) forms part of his research for the installation Concrete Coral (2025), a series conceived for the large-scale artistic-ecological project The ReefLine, an undersea sculpture park in the waters off Miami Beach.
Erlich recreates submerged cars overgrown by coral-like forms, suggesting a future in which urban life is absorbed by the ocean. The work presents a poetic and urgently needed reflection on human impact on marine ecosystems, in which Erlich mobilizes his characteristic illusionism in the service of an environmental critique.
O trabalho de Leandro Erlich explora os artifícios da visualidade, através de jogos de percepção e sentidos. A arquitetura do quotidiano é um tema recorrente na sua obra, com a qual cria paradoxos entre o que acreditamos e o que vemos. Por meio de instalações, esculturas, fotografias e vídeos, o artista simula situações que deslocam nossa experiência cotidiana e nossa compreensão do comum.
O meio ambiente marinho tem sido tema recorrente na pesquisa do artista nos últimos anos. A escultura "Coral Car" (2024) compõe a pesquisa do artista para a instalação "Concrete Coral" (2025), uma série de esculturas concebidas no contexto do grande projeto artístico-ecológico "The ReefLine", um parque de esculturas submerso no mar de Miami Beach (EUA). A obra recria carros submersos que são tomados por formas que evocam corais, sugerindo um futuro em que a vida urbana é absorvida pelo oceano. Essa pesquisa propõe uma reflexão poética e urgente sobre o impacto humano nos ecossistemas marinhos, combinando a ilusão característica de Leandro Erlich com uma crítica ambiental.