Erin Ehren
Installations
Bankrupt1420 N Parham Rd
Richmond, VA
2025

Bankrupt 
A site-responsive installation in which the artist posits four sculptures in a defunct shopping mall.



Existent / Enacted Interventions

carpet, melody; voice and vacuum cleaner;
wall; drywall, nails with paint; glue;
spot and trough and tube light fictures fixed with foil and tape; removal;
melamine shleves stacked, refinished twinkly;
silverfish; song bird;
lockbox; dust bags.




Touch Your Woman

(sculpture read top-to-bottom)
        Piano hinge found bent and unopenable; cotton, nettle.
        Tile fragment.
        Plywood face, paint sanded to mirror shine; wax and pigment (faux-alexandrite).
        Melamine and paint; found, stacked, resurfaced.




Scrying Bench: My Mother Loved Me Like a Son

Theophanic pine and steel sanded by hand to mirror finish and sealed with paste wax.
No sitting.

Melamine and paint; found, stacked, resurfaced.




Mirrored Fears (No. 1)

Loose fibers, feathers, and hair found on and inside the bodies of two lovers bound to wood by cotton yarn and thread.
Wax seal sealed in resin.

Melamine and paint; found, stacked, resurfaced.




“Well, I’ve got to change my whole life now”

Metal fragment; silk, wool, and linen.
Nail and paint; found and resurfaced.








“I am sad, yet at ease. My sorrow is light-filled, my sadness is full of you and you only. Nothing disturbs or troubles my sulking and my heart is burning and loving once again, for it is no longer capable of not loving.”
 
        -Translation Gifted to artist by friend and mentor, Hazzan Natasha Hirschhorn
        -Excerpt of Upon the Hills of Georgia (Pushkin, 1829)











Images courtesy Josh True



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