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it’s because of the shimmer, the verge, and the yet.

Hess Gallery

January 18 – March 29, 2025

Artist: Erika DeFreitas

Curator: Sandy Saad-Smith

Scheduled Events with Artist in Attendance:

Knitting at Noon in the Gallery: Tuesday February 4, 12 – 1 pm
Coffee with the Artist: Tuesday, February 4, 3 – 4:30 pm
Erika DeFreitas Speaks in the ULethbridge Faculty of Fine Arts Art Now Speaker Series: Wednesday, February 5, 12 pm

it’s because of the shimmer, the verge, and the yet. is the largest solo exhibition of works by Erika DeFreitas to date. Spanning a timeline of almost two decades, the exhibition serves as an invitation for viewers to become intimately acquainted with DeFreitas’ artistic practice.

Through photography, collage, sculpture, and video, DeFreitas addresses historical and archival absences, centring those who have been marginalized, misrepresented, and erased. Drawing on both personal and cultural histories, she undertakes an ongoing dialogue with a community of historically overlooked women, ruminating on the margins of representability and reframing historic accounts to centre peripheral figures. Guided by intuition, DeFreitas’ practice deeply reflections on the notion of loss, post-memory, legacy, and objecthood. She offers a rich, poetic reimagining of an alternate text that attests to the complexity of life and invites us into a realm of transcendental possibilities and new what-ifs.

Organized and circulated by the Doris McCarthy Gallery.