Erik Pauhrizi uses a gamut of media including photography, video, performance, painting and sculpture to conceptualise his pet theme of post-colonial identity. This work is from his Fictitious Biography Series, playing on perceptions, location (dislocation) and context.
Born in Indonesia in 1981, Erik had lived in Braunschweig and Berlin in Germany from 2009-2013, but now lives in Bandung. He received his B.A. in Fine Arts from the Bandung Institute of Technology, Cum Laude, and his Diploma Freie Kunst at the Braunschweig University of Art. He has had solos all over the world since his first, The Poison of Our Sins, in New York in 2011, when doing a research grant given by the Asian Cultural Council (2010) in cooperation with the New Museum in New York. In 2014, he was awarded a residency-exhibition in Vienna, Austria.