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 i am art

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my life is art 

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Elis, 34

I’m a multidisciplinary conceptual and visual artist from Kyiv,

with a BA in contemporary photographic practice from University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, UK (2011). 

I have a split personality in my artistic and creative practice:

on one side i explore my own emotional boundaries and transform pain into diary-like creations and performances;

and on the other side I’m constantly searching for new ideas and interested how my surroundings exist and work and evolve. 

I’m a very curious and not-afraid-to-try-new-things artist.

In the past few years I’ve worked with

collages, photography, videos, installations, performances, texts, bodies, psychology, philosophy, pain, death, identity, sexuality.

There are no boundaries for me.

I’m very unpredictable in my art practice and in life.

Every project is different and I’m also not the same as I was even yesterday,

therefore everything I create is so diverse.

I’m always eager to try new material and new technologies,

I’ve collaborated with artists and curators from all over the world. 

I prefer to stay on the verge of rawness and marginal beauty creating my own dystopian magic. 

My art has been exhibited at

the Walter Koschatzky Art-Award (Vienna, Austria), Gallery Ra (Kyiv, Ukraine), PH21 Contemporary Photography Gallery (Budapest, Hungary), Museum of Ukrainian Contemporary Art (Lutsk, Ukraine), Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv), “Envision” Gallery (Dallas, USA), Brick Lane (London), Portal 11 Gallery (Kyiv), “Gurtobus” Izolyatsia (Kyiv),

and all sorts of places that were not intended as exhibition spaces, for instance at Central Registry Office in Kyiv.

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