Studio grant holders in Stockholm 8 May – 25 July 2019

Ericka Florez (La Nocturna). Year and city of birth: Cali, 1983. Lives and works in: Cali.
Herlyng Ferla (La Nocturna). Year and city of birth: Cali, 1984. Lives and works in: Cali.

Ericka Florez projects can take the form of performative exhibitions, danceable lectures and publications. Currently she is interested in the relationship between rythms and the cosmogonies that produce them. She had presented her danceable conferences in Manifiesta 11,  in Rupert, in Museo experimental el Eco, El festival de performance de Cali, el 43 Salón nacional de artistas de Colombia. She had curated expositions in Colombia as the 13 Salón Regional de Artistas, zona pacífico, with Juan Sebastián Ramírez and the Sección de Referentes ARTBO 2016 with Pablo León de la Barra.  She has written essays, poetry and short fiction for different editorial and curatorial projects in Colombia, Spain, France, Mexico and the United States.

Foto: Ericka Florez & Herlyng Ferla (La Nocturna)

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Together with Mónica Restrepo, Hernán Barón, and Herlyng Ferla, she co-funded La Nocturna, a platform that creates forms of meetings around the construction of knowledge that include the body, dance, and other performative formats.

Ericka and Herlyng Ferla created a vespertine art school for kids in Cali (La casa en el aire / the floating house) in which they explore how to support children knowledge through material thinking and awakening learning processes that puts the body in the foreground. Through this school they are putting into test the idea -taken from the Reggio Emilia approach to education- of how the distribution of the sensible (spatial and material decisions) can transform and question the classic power rol of teachers in education, and how to build spaces for transdisciplinary thinking.

Currently Herlyng Ferla designs collective spatial projects related with public space and education. Through his work as sculptor, he is interested to trace tensions between the industrial production and the manual labour related to the type of forms produced by different economic moments of the region in which he works and live.

Studies:
Psychology
Modern and contemporary history and theory

Herlyng created together with Ericka Florez La casa en el aire (the floating house) a vespertine art school for kids in Cali in which they explore how to support children´s construction of knowledge through material thinking and awakening learning processes that puts the body in the foreground. Through this school they are putting into test the idea -taken from the Reggio Emilia approach to education- of how the distribution of the sensible (spatial and material decisions) can transform and question the classic power rol of teachers in education, and how to build spaces for transdisciplinary thinking.

He studied at Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes in Cali.

Residencies:
Flora Ars Natura, Honda, Colombia, 2015.
Pivô, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2017.
FRAC-Des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France, 2017.

Latest projects:
-BLOC, production grant given by lugar a dudas and Museo La tertulia in Cali
-La Casa en el aire (educative project)