Erika Meda
Erika Meda
Photography, Installation
Probing the in-between, the fluctuating, the ephemeral… The images I seek emerges from a desire to explore the margins of reality. At the core of my practice, memory, imagination, mythology and metamorphosis are focal matters, as they unfold fluctuating, and sometimes troubled interior landscapes. I use photography as a material, a source from which I transform and repeat the image, to break it up and unfold its facets; to encourage the emergence of that part of reality that escapes the concrete. My artistic practice prices the place of the unforeseen, of what happens accidentally; it also prices the combining of chemical techniques and processes (silver gelatin, Polaroid, cyanotype, transfers,…), while pursuing research on the materiality of photography.
Born in Brussels in 1986, Erika studied romance languages and literature as well as cinematography and film theory. In 2013, she co-founded the production company Roue Libre where she worked for 7 years. Since 2020, she is a teacher and coordinator of the cinema section at Preparts school in Brussels. At the same time, she is pursuing a PhD in Arts, to question the heterogeneity of the issues involved in creative artistic processes.
Erika works and lives in between Brussels and Namur, Belgium.
Podcast “L’objet de mon intention”
- Erika, quel est l’objet que tu sauverais d’un incendie à ton atelier?
