Cerrillo Studio Gallery Proposal ERIN JUNE Araujo Pic2011

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Proposal for the installation: Vacas hambrientas, Pajaros soñadores: una exploración del amor,

miedo, extasís y odio de la intimidad.

By: Erin Araujo, www.wix.com/donttimetravel/main-site

Proposed dates: April-May, 2010 (though other dates are possible)

The Work Proposed

This installation is an exploration of intimacy; the push and pull of what it means to be close to

ourselves, animals, ideas and other humans in all of the real and imagined experiences that createcloseness and distance. The piece will realized through the creation of an animal mesh of wire and

other media as sculpture to be be mounted in the Cerrillo Studio Gallery. The animals will crawl out of

the walls, the ceiling and the floor, frozen in time reaching out to the center of the gallery. The space

will be filled with recorded music, animal and human sounds, and illuminated by small colored lightsin the center of each cow and bird and other real and imagined animals.

Upon entering the gallery space the viewer will be encouraged to move through the space, 2-3

people at a time, so that they may explore the hard metal mesh bodies, soft ears and tongues, glisteningwaxy teeth and out reaching hands and wings that are all suspended in the tense but soft wire that

simultaneously supports and is the piece itself. The two primary animals to be included repetitiously,

in the piece will be cows of all kinds of birds. The birds, with their intense movement and energy,affection for one another, and predatory practices, that when sleeping transport them to skies well

beyond our reach are animals that often co-habitate with humans and are known to us even in urban

settings. While the cows, rural, massive, slow, soft and intimidating are representative creatures thatcall us closer while frightening us with their size and their own fear of our closeness. The small lights

to be placed inside of the animals and human parts will show their emotions, dreams and life energy.

The work will be done specifically for the gallery with the understanding that it will be entombed in the

walls of the space, unless sections of the work are sold.

Plan for the installation:

The gallery space, 5m x 5m x5m will be covered by an

approximately 1m deep

structure on the walls andceiling composed of bodies of

animals (including humans and

mythical creatures, but

primarily birds and cows).The small lights that will be

placed inside of them will be

the size of Christmas lightssometimes pulsing, sometimes

barely visible. The installation

will transform the walkablegallery space into a softer

ovalesque polygon of approx.

4m in diameter. It isanticipated that the creation of

the piece will require about

200-300 hours of work with Illustration 1: Sketch of wire mesh animals with colored lights inside

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about half of that to be done in the gallery. Some of the pieces can be made outside of the gallery, in

my studio, but a large part of the work with have to be constructed on site.

About the materials

The wire, commonly called alambre para armar in San Cristobal is commonly used in

construction to lightly secure larger metal bars and just about anything else. It is highly malleable,about 2 mm in diameter, and yet strong enough to support itself in larger animal sculptures. I have

worked with this material for about 8yrs and find it highly functional for creating large animals and

smaller pieces as well.

About the Artist

Erin Araujo is a bilingual, native New Yorker that splits her time between New York City andSan Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico. Her artistic process is a well-tuned conglomerate of constant solo and

collaborative painting, sculpture, stop-motion video, activism and radical geography.

Araujo has exhibited in New York, Mexico and Bolivia. Her work is deeply personal, exploringa sense of transparency and transition that parallels the struggles of love, death, life and injury that

comes from living in countries that are constantly at war.

In May she will complete a MA in Geography at Hunter College, CUNY, complimenting her BS

Illustration 2: Sketch for plan of the installation with wire animals occupying most of the space. In

the actual installation the ceiling will be filled with animals as well as all walls of the gallery.



in Earth Systems Science from the University of

Massachusetts, Amherst. Araujo's art education consists

of a year at the Art Students League of New York (2004-

2005), five months at Bellas Artes, UNICACH in TuxtlaGutierrez, Chiapas (2003-2004) and a year at the Puerta

Abierta School of Art in Santa Cruz, Bolivia (2002-

2003).

Selection of works:

The following pieces are a selection of wire sculptures

I've done over the years that are closest to the installation

I am proposing.

Home, 2007 is ¾ of a life-size horse. The title of thework comes from a sense of constant movement and

strength in that movement which has continuously given

me a sense of home.

Illustration 4: Home. 2007. Wire and mixed media. 2m x 1m x 1.5m

Illustration 3: Home. Artist for scale.



Going Ostrich (End of the World) 2009, was created in an attempt to express a common feeling of helplessness in the face of constant war and natural disasters that surround us in the first decade of the

21st century. While those that respond to the general destruction of the human and natural environment

are few, there seems to be a general consensus that one must hide and ignore the problems that face usin the new millennium and yet my own instinct is to keep my head out of the sand and act.

Inculcate Struggle 2009, expresses the constant process of learning, teaching, sharing, and growing.

Illustration 5: Going Ostrich (End of the World). 2009. Wire and mixed media. 3.5m x 3m x 60cm



Illustration 6: Inculcate Struggle. 2009. Wire and mixed media. 1m x 1.25m x 40cm



Yosemite-Afghanistan , 2004. Created in response to the war in Afghanistan while living in Yosemite

National Park in California.

Illustration 7: Yosemite-Afghanistan. 2004. Wire and mixed media. 1m x 50cm x 25cm



Yosemite-Afghanistan 2, 2004. Created in response to the war in Afghanistan while living in YosemiteNational Park in California.

Illustration 8: Yosemite-Afghanistan 2. 2004. Wire. 1m x 55cm x 25cm

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