Elena Bulet i Llopis

Intangible shells

 

My current work contends with gendered family dynamics in the context of postwar, dictatorship-era Spain. Addressing inherited pain, memory, loss of innocence, and the preservation of untold stories, I enact a process of reclamation rooted in a desire to uphold structures of feminine resilience.

Through photography; handblown glass; silkscreen printed textiles, and steel sculptures I aim to craft an imaginary realm in which new possibilities of being can emerge.

The unsaid, the suppressed, the broken, in a past that is often inaccessible, can only be recalled through mechanisms of fiction. Fragmented memories are gathered and transmitted from surface to surface, actual to invented, sometimes tactile, sometimes fugitive.

Ultimately, the work answers a desire to shorten the distance between matrilineal figures of my family, and to heal the pain that marked both my ancestors and my childhood self. 
 

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