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Elen Alien
Weeping Willow 2, 2021
Blandteknik
40 x 40 cm
8 500 kr
Elen Alien believes that art is magic, a way to make ordinary objects like leaves become miraculous ones, and oppositely. She thinks that our world has a dual structure - physical and metaphysical components. To emphasize this vision in the project she created finished products having an element of life on their own represented in natural leaves. "Weeping willow" is the triptych created from weeping willow's fallen leaves collected in Denmark in 2020. In the project, the artist investigates fading plants’ decorative and symbolic properties, their intertextuality, transformative qualities, energy, and mood. She followed the natural shape of leaves to connect them together on a circular wooden panel, she didn't cut or dye them. Initially, the leaves had a silver shade and reminded a silver shield or amulet, but after the resining, they turned out copper. It was not possible to find the material meaning in her own culture and time, that's why the artist referred to non-obvious sources. She found out that the ancient Chinese believed that willow branches would ward off evil spirits and they were often carried or placed over doorways to keep those spirits away. The work resembles three copper shields, two of them have eyes looking at the viewer from the darkness to enhance the feeling that the artwork is alive and to place the observer in the same position as the object to underline that we all are parts of one big organism, and no one is more important following the ideas of popular nowadays "object-oriented ontology" ideas. Elen Alien lets the viewers decide what they need protection from, while they are meditatively watching the natural pattern of forever preserved leaves forming the shield because she believes that our force is already inside us, we just need to pay attention to it, while the art is a right instrument.
Elen Alien
Weeping Willow 2, 2021
Blandteknik
40 x 40 cm
8 500 kr
Elen Alien believes that art is magic, a way to make ordinary objects like leaves become miraculous ones, and oppositely. She thinks that our world has a dual structure - physical and metaphysical components. To emphasize this vision in the project she created finished products having an element of life on their own represented in natural leaves. "Weeping willow" is the triptych created from weeping willow's fallen leaves collected in Denmark in 2020. In the project, the artist investigates fading plants’ decorative and symbolic properties, their intertextuality, transformative qualities, energy, and mood. She followed the natural shape of leaves to connect them together on a circular wooden panel, she didn't cut or dye them. Initially, the leaves had a silver shade and reminded a silver shield or amulet, but after the resining, they turned out copper. It was not possible to find the material meaning in her own culture and time, that's why the artist referred to non-obvious sources. She found out that the ancient Chinese believed that willow branches would ward off evil spirits and they were often carried or placed over doorways to keep those spirits away. The work resembles three copper shields, two of them have eyes looking at the viewer from the darkness to enhance the feeling that the artwork is alive and to place the observer in the same position as the object to underline that we all are parts of one big organism, and no one is more important following the ideas of popular nowadays "object-oriented ontology" ideas. Elen Alien lets the viewers decide what they need protection from, while they are meditatively watching the natural pattern of forever preserved leaves forming the shield because she believes that our force is already inside us, we just need to pay attention to it, while the art is a right instrument.
8 500 kr
Elen Alien
London
Elen Alien (b. 1990, Ukraine) is a staunch cosmopolitan. In her works, she combines elements of different times and cultural communities, thus pointing to the absence of the need for separation, and labeling, to the fact that together all people and nature form a common organism. The art of Elen Alien expresses the unity of the sacred, natural and aesthetic, in their striving for a common goal. Her research unfolds at the points of contact between nature and humans, again addressing questions that people have tried in vain for centuries to find answers to with the help of science and technology. In her artistic practice, the artist tries to "preserve forever" the elusive beauty of the moment. Combining the tenderness of flowers and the hardness of epoxy resin, she reveals the ambivalence of glorifying the beauty of imperfection and contrasts art with digital immortality.
Utbildning
2021-2022
Vocational Degree in Fine Arts ”Project Konst”, Folkuniversitetet Konstskolan, Stockholm, Sweden
2021-2022
“Art, architecture and visual culture in Sweden” course, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 - 2013
Specialist Degree in Architecture, Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Art, Novosibirsk, Russia
1997 - 2007
Art school No2, Novokuznetsk, Russia
Medlem i konstnärsförening
Fria konstnärers sällskap
Utställningar
2024 – Charity Auction in Stockholm (upcoming)
2023 – Objects of Care, Bachhaus Projects, Berlin
2023 – Kobe 6 - Untitled, Mela, Oslo
2023 – Borderless, Verse Gallery, Oslo
2022 – Autumn show, Gallery M35, Oslo
2022 – “Mono no aware” solo show, Brännkyrka church, Stockholm (solo)
2022 – Summer show, Gallery M35, Oslo
2022 – Varutstallning 2022, Gallery K45, Stockholm
2022 – “Mono no aware” solo show, Gallery K45, Stockholm (solo)
2022 – Spring salon, Nata Watts Gallery, Copenhagen
2021 – “Nymph”, Monday studio, Copenhagen
2021 – ”Kvinnliga Linjer”, Park, Stockholm
2021 – ”Nordic Art”, Copenhagen
2021 – “The Earth. Version 2021. What was next?”, Darwin Museum, Moscow
2021 – “Art dialogue”, [format] gallery, Moscow
2018 – Next Station Sokol, Moscow
2012 – “OK. WATCH!”, Nina Romanova, Novosibirsk