As an interdisciplinary artist, Eric Andre's research encapsulates abstract and perceptual-driven artworks to explore immigrants' experiences of displacement, vulnerability, and negotiation to challenge the sociocultural, sociopolitical, and socioeconomic systems.

He uses different mediums and a participatory approach to situate the audience in spaces of accessibility and inaccessibility, inhibited with fear and a lack of understanding of the unknown. As a multimedia artist, he is interested in engaging the audience through interactive space using video, sound, projection, drawing, and sculpture pieces to create an atmosphere that allows for an open dialogue between the works and audiences.

 

Eric is interested in creating artworks and an environment where people can see themselves through his eyes. He seeks to explore systems, institutions, and structures that control how people live, work and relate to one another within and beyond boundaries and how those social, political, and cultural constructs shape the world.

 

What influences his practice is that immigration has been an enormous and sensitive part of our history; however, immigration has always been controversial. In his experience, the complexity is not just about the immigrants (people), but how people negotiate space attracts various interpretations of institutions, structures, systems of control, and privileges. The severity of the situation is the inconsiderate migrants' policies and border brutality resulting from nationalism (defining boundaries, "We" and the "Others") fueled by the fear of the Others as a threat.

 

His works aim to create a new sense of consciousness and self-awareness with the audience and trigger them to question their identity, prerogatives within the constructed systems, and their existence in the world. In other words, to create a sense of spatial displacement forcing the audience to negotiate the in-between space. We all need to make the world better by recognizing that we are all human before anything.