Show catalogue for Erika Ehrman's solo show at Hawk + Hive.

The work in Erika Ehrman’s series UN-SEEN explores the idea that the “truth” of family history is shifting and ultimately unknowable.

Following the death of her parents, Ehrman came across a box of family photographs spanning a period from the 1940s to the 1960s. The prints revealed scenes and portraits from the intriguing world her parents inhabited, an often glamorous, well-travelled life she knew only in parts from half-remembered anecdotes. In the same box she discovered a note from Man Ray to her mother and a message from the painter (and Picasso’s muse) Francois Gilot, addressed to her father. The shock of these discoveries led her to the question: “How do I not know these stories?”