proyectoxtra

San Jose-based multimedia artist Erica G. Peralta uses video, cardboard sculptures resembling architecture and paintings of spaces she has inhabited and experienced, digitally and physically, to reflect and dissect the institutions of her Mexican American roots, i.e. home videos, domestic spaces, businesses, and educational institutions. Her attraction to mundane aesthetics and vibrant stories catapult her desire for inclusive and accessible spaces. Erica strives to recreate spaces from memory to toggle between the polarity of stability and insecurity.

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“I have found myself considering different systems of knowledge that mold our minds with indoctrinated values and practices. I’m creating a metamorphic mapping system to understand the way the institution has conditioned me.”

Erica G. Peralta (b. 1997) received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from St. John’s University in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Otis College in Los Angeles, California. Her work has been presented at the Dorsky Gallery in New York City, the San Francisco Women’s Art Gallery, the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, the Proxy Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles.