Leandro Erlich

For BAB 2020 Erlich presents a new work, Class Room (2020), a complex interactive installation of a classroom in semi darkness that looks into the adjacent room through the two-way mirror. Viewers see their own reflections momentarily trapped in their mirror image. Erlich plays with illusion that triggers memories and time warp of youth and adolescence. Passing through the threshold, the viewers venture into the abandoned classroom containing decrepit desks, chairs and blackboard. Reciprocating with time, the classroom is reverted to the past or forecast into the future. Either way, the exit from Erlich’s classroom leads us back to grim reality.