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Elen Alien
MNA 1, 2021
Annan
64 x 89 cm
Såld
In Japanese culture, a subtle concept captures this borderline of joy and sadness -“mono no aware”, which means a state of slight anguish from the realization of the actual impermanence of life. This capacious idiom served as the name for Elen Alien's project. Fallen sakura leaves symbolize this sadness in Japanese culture. Being collected by the artist not in Japan, but in Stockholm, they express the position of a cosmopolitan in her work, a fundamental rejection of the imposed cultural identity, separation and labeling.
In an abstract drawing woven from petals, there is a frozen moment of perception, and contemplation of the falling leaves of sakura. An experience fixed in a material object in an attempt to preserve an elusive beauty is protected from the barbaric intrusion of technologies and virtualities.
The artwork is mirroring and is fundamentally tuned to the tone of the environment and the audience's empathy. The viewer is invited to watch himself through the filter of "mono no aware" to feel a slight sadness about the impermanence of time, and the sweet pleasure of having the current moment of his life, as a result.
Elen Alien
MNA 1, 2021
Annan
64 x 89 cm
Såld
In Japanese culture, a subtle concept captures this borderline of joy and sadness -“mono no aware”, which means a state of slight anguish from the realization of the actual impermanence of life. This capacious idiom served as the name for Elen Alien's project. Fallen sakura leaves symbolize this sadness in Japanese culture. Being collected by the artist not in Japan, but in Stockholm, they express the position of a cosmopolitan in her work, a fundamental rejection of the imposed cultural identity, separation and labeling.
In an abstract drawing woven from petals, there is a frozen moment of perception, and contemplation of the falling leaves of sakura. An experience fixed in a material object in an attempt to preserve an elusive beauty is protected from the barbaric intrusion of technologies and virtualities.
The artwork is mirroring and is fundamentally tuned to the tone of the environment and the audience's empathy. The viewer is invited to watch himself through the filter of "mono no aware" to feel a slight sadness about the impermanence of time, and the sweet pleasure of having the current moment of his life, as a result.
Såld
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
2024 - Idea Generation, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2021-2022 - Project Konst, Folkuniversitetet, Stockholm, Sweden
2021-2022 - Art, architecture and visual culture in Sweden, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
2007-2013 - MA, Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Art, Novosibirsk, Russia
Medlem i konstnärsförening
Fria konstnärers sällskap
Utställningar
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2025 – “BREATH. MATTER. CODE.”, Not For Sale Gallery, London
2023 – “Garden of Transcendence”, Kunstmatrix, online
2022 – “Mono no aware” solo show, Brännkyrka church, Stockholm
2022 – “Mono no aware” solo show, Gallery K45, Stockholm
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025 – London Contemporary 14th edition, Elements Art Space, London
2025 – Under The Ice, 54 The Gallery, London
2024 – Drawing Down The Moon, 54 The Gallery, London
2024 – LBWA, Chelsea Old Town City Hall, London
2024 – Summer Show, Bow Arts, London
2024 – ARTLAB, Benjamin Eck, Munich
2023 – Objects of Care, Backhaus Projects, Berlin
2023 – Kobe 6 - Untitled, Mela, Oslo
2023 – Borderless, Verse Gallery, Oslo
2022 – Autumn show, Gallery M35, Oslo
2022 – Summer show, Gallery M35, Oslo
2022 – Varutstallning 2022, Gallery K45, Stockholm
2022 – Spring salon, Nata Watts Gallery, Copenhagen
2021 – Nymph, Monday studio, Copenhagen
2021 – Kvinnliga Linjer, Park, Stockholm
ART FAIRS:
2021 – Art Nordic, Copenhagen
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS:
2025 – Artist of the Year 2024 Award by Itsliquid Group,
2024 – Woman In Art, Excellence Award by Artio Gallery
2024 – Nominated artist, ArtLab, Benjamin Eck, Munich
2023 – Glogauair residency, Berlin
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA:
2025 – L.O.U.D. with Sandrine on Riverside Radio
2025 – “It's liquid” Interview
2024 – “Create!” Magazine #45
2024 – “Suboart” Magazine #23
2023 – “GlogauAir” video interview
2023 – “Art by Artists” video interview
2023 – “Art Radar” interview
2022 – “Journalen” video interview
2021 – “Metropolis” interview