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Elen Alien
Holy skin, 2020
Akryl
39 x 39 cm
4 000 kr
People are different, their bodies are unique initially and life adds extra footprints on them with time. It is hard for many to accept imperfections like scars. People prefer to hide them to match accepted standards of beauty, but in this process, they erase a piece of their story, an integral part of their personality. As a result, the dissonance between body and soul appears as well as the dissonance between who we are and who we seem to be. The body is painted upon the old textured abstract canvas, which was thrown away because several holes appeared. The idea of “Holy skin" creation was born when I saw that canvas in the trash. People considered the damaged canvas useless and threw it away. The same approach is if something appears on the body, people don’t want to accept it and show it. Through this artwork, I propose to show all hidden imperfections directly and suppose that people's beauty is in their identity. We are units of energy having strength in our self-acceptance. By understanding this, everyone can discover his or her freedom. This canvas shows that even holes can add an old canvas to its value. Because having no holes and history this canvas will have no difference from many other woman's depictions. The same is with the human body
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Elen Alien
Holy skin, 2020
Akryl
39 x 39 cm
4 000 kr
People are different, their bodies are unique initially and life adds extra footprints on them with time. It is hard for many to accept imperfections like scars. People prefer to hide them to match accepted standards of beauty, but in this process, they erase a piece of their story, an integral part of their personality. As a result, the dissonance between body and soul appears as well as the dissonance between who we are and who we seem to be. The body is painted upon the old textured abstract canvas, which was thrown away because several holes appeared. The idea of “Holy skin" creation was born when I saw that canvas in the trash. People considered the damaged canvas useless and threw it away. The same approach is if something appears on the body, people don’t want to accept it and show it. Through this artwork, I propose to show all hidden imperfections directly and suppose that people's beauty is in their identity. We are units of energy having strength in our self-acceptance. By understanding this, everyone can discover his or her freedom. This canvas shows that even holes can add an old canvas to its value. Because having no holes and history this canvas will have no difference from many other woman's depictions. The same is with the human body
Utvald i kurerad samling
4 000 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