Power Object 7 Breath of Qouaoar, 2014" Wood, paint,
balloons (7-12), 94 1/2 × 59 1/10 × 55 1/10 in | 240 × 150 × 140 cm
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Elena Bajo is an artist, educator, and founder of the S-LAB Project, an ecological art platform dedicated to climate action, located in Wonder Valley, a Californian desert. Using Celtic ancestral methods and a trans-disciplinary art practice which combines sculpture, film, and performance, they mine vibrant plant systems to discover their unique material forms and activate new forms of consciousness. After obtaining a degree in Pharmacology from University Complutense (Madrid, ES), they received an MFA from Central Saint Martins (London, UK) and an MA in Genetic Architecture from ESARQ UIC (Barcelona, ES), Laban and Bartenieff Movement at TanzFabrik, and the Berlin Contemporary Dance Center.
By merging ancestral methods with contemporary art practices across fine arts, ethnobotany, dance, choreography, and poetry, Elena Bajo delves into vibrant plant systems to unveil their unique consciousness. Her art serves as a platform for researching and reviving ancestral ethnobotanical knowledge, engaging with environmental justice issues, and fostering collective empowerment through artistic expression and community collaboration. Elena's diverse artistic approach spans choreography, sculpture, performance, painting, poetry, and video, embodying a holistic exploration of ecology, history, and human connection to the non-human world. |
Her artistic practice occurs at the intersection of anarchist thought, social ecology, and metaphysics, engaging ideas of nature and the body as a political and social entity questioning its relationship to ecologies of capital. She works both individually and collectively, using a post-disciplinary approach to choreography, sculpture, performance, architecture, life sciences, text, and video. Concept-generated and research-based, it is concerned with the ecological, social, and political dimensions of everyday spaces, the strategies to conceptualize resistance, the poetics of ideologies, and the relationship between temporalities and subjectivities.
Exhibition spaces become art studios or laboratories, where an experimental, itinerant, site-specific performed work unfolds, generating improvised actions and choreographed movements. The resulting works are both conceptual and poetic, in the sense that they are linked to cognitive labor, a labor that cannot be valued and has no limits, as it is the condition of precarious work in today’s neoliberal economy generated amidst ecosophical moments of fracture and repositioning, in an attempt to entertain fissures in a world of crystallized sensibility.
After obtaining a degree in pharmacology from the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain, she received an MA in genetic architecture from ESARQ, School of Architecture at International University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, and an MA in fine arts from Central Saint Martins School of Art, University of Arts, London, UK. She has studied Laban/Bartenieff Movement Principles with Eva Blaschke, Christel Büche, and Jan Burkhardt at TanzFabrik, Center for Contemporary Dance, Berlin. She was a co-founder of the temporary art project EXHIBITION 211 in New York. She has taught and lectured at Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Berlin; Goldsmith’s College, London; Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, Providence; and Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, among other institutions.
Exhibition spaces become art studios or laboratories, where an experimental, itinerant, site-specific performed work unfolds, generating improvised actions and choreographed movements. The resulting works are both conceptual and poetic, in the sense that they are linked to cognitive labor, a labor that cannot be valued and has no limits, as it is the condition of precarious work in today’s neoliberal economy generated amidst ecosophical moments of fracture and repositioning, in an attempt to entertain fissures in a world of crystallized sensibility.
After obtaining a degree in pharmacology from the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain, she received an MA in genetic architecture from ESARQ, School of Architecture at International University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, and an MA in fine arts from Central Saint Martins School of Art, University of Arts, London, UK. She has studied Laban/Bartenieff Movement Principles with Eva Blaschke, Christel Büche, and Jan Burkhardt at TanzFabrik, Center for Contemporary Dance, Berlin. She was a co-founder of the temporary art project EXHIBITION 211 in New York. She has taught and lectured at Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Berlin; Goldsmith’s College, London; Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, Providence; and Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, among other institutions.
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About: P2023 Pluriverse Priska Pasquer Gallery Paris FRORTFOLIO+CV | Elena Bajo. (n.d.). Elena Bajo. https://www.elenabajo.com/about
