Elena Aitzkoa
Elena Aitzkoa works with sculpture, poetry, video, and performance. Everyday objects such as clothing and porcelain are joined together with stone, gypsum, and plants to make tightly entangled forms. Her artwork interweaves material from her studio with material from its surroundings into commingled configurations. Everyday things are made visible as poetry, and poetry becomes a way of navigating through everyday life. Body, mind, words, and objects exchange places or are subsumed into one another.
Elena Aitzkoa (b.1984 in Apodaka, Spain) lives and works in Bilbao. Her recent exhibitions and projects include Zarza Corazón exhibition at Museo Patio Herrariano in Valladolid (2019), the record Paraíso Terrenal (2019) and the performance cycle Headscarfs Close to the Ground part of OsloPilot (2016).
Supported by AC/E – Acción Cultural Española and the Embassy of Spain in Sweden.
Artwork
CIRCUNVALACIÖN
2019
Mixed media: cloth, plaster, pigment powder and wool
25 x 44 x 34 cm
Courtesy the artist and Rosa Santos Gallery
COMPLETAMENTE DENTRO
2019
Mixed media: cloth, plaster, pigment powder, socks and fossils
43 x 97 x 72 cm
Courtesy the artist and Rosa Santos Gallery
FLOR DE MAR
2018
Mixed media: fabric, plaster, pigment powder, uncooked mud, stone and wool
15 x 25 x 25 cm
Courtesy the artist and Rosa Santos Gallery
LAGO-REMOLINO
2018
Mixed media: cloth, plaster, pigment powder, oil, stones, mug with photographic print
44 x 47 x 39 cm
Courtesy the artist and Rosa Santos Gallery
MAREA DOBLE
2019
Mixed media: fabric, plaster, concrete, pigment powder, stone and oil
52 x 67 x 44 cm
Courtesy the artist and Rosa Santos Gallery
PÁJARO MÉDULA
2018
Mixed media: cloth, plaster, pigment powder, oil and wood
84 x 50 x 85 cm
Courtesy the artist and Rosa Santos Gallery
Venue
Göteborgs Konsthall
Image: Elena Aitzkoa, CIRCUNVALACIÖN, 2019. Photo: Hendrik Zeitler