"In general Erwin's photographic work is heavily manipulated and figurative. She uses earthy dirty colors, rich layered textures and overlays, and creates the illusion of an accidental or expressionistic process while maintaining crispness, composure. Narrative elements figure strongly in her work and address, perhaps unintentionally, the ubiquitous aesthetic of the art-fashion
commercial photograph. It's not entirely clear whether she is deconstructing this aesthetic, or simply informed by it.
The images do make you want to consume, but maybe just yourself or your lover.
These are haunted images that make use of mise-en-scene, design and photographic techniques to create a very nostalgic mood and sense of narrative. The images are powerful and evocative of a nostalgic sensuality and longing.
Aside from the colors and textures, the use of one detail stands out. Erwin uses lens flares, lighting and over exposures to literally create a centrally located organic emptiness. This space has the unusual quality of making the focus of the image into a nothingness, an open place that invites the viewer to construct narratives within each image and within the work as a whole. This space does not suggest concrete stories, but alludes to
death, beauty, fashion, fear, love, insanity . . . everything that makes humans human. In a very interesting twist on the fashion photograph, these wisps of space turn the viewer's attention away from the often sexy, underwear clad subject and back onto herself. The viewer is forced to question the place of seeing and desire in relationship to the object of beauty. In other words we become aware of the central and ill-defined space between ourselves
and the work of art.
Seen together what begins to appear in Erwin's work is a genuine desire for understanding of basic existential questions. What does my life mean to me? What am I and what are you and who are we in relation to the vast spaces that separate us? And especially, she asks, how do we fill these spaces with meaning? These are the questions of childhood that have been buried in our adult lives, in Bataille's world of work. In very beautiful and haunting ways Erwin's photography wants to remind us about falling in love with someone or something; about how everything is so funny and light and dark and scary all at once."
- Review by Jorge Gomez Campo

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