Yelena Popova Talk

Installation artist Yelena Popova will be hosting a talk about her work on Wednesday 20th November at 15.30

Russian artist Yelena Popova will be in Lincoln on Wednesday 20th November conducting various workshops at the University of Lincoln. As part of her visit Popova will be hosting a talk here at The Collection.

With their transparent, softened geometric forms, Popova’s paintings recall the graphics and aesthetics of both Russian Constructivism and Minimalism, and open up conversations about the materiality of painting today. Popova’s practice encompasses painting, video and installation, and all her work is tied together by an interest in exploring the concept of balance, whether in politics, representation, or in our relationship with machines.

“I’m not interested in making single objects, but in creating a complex network of facts, fictions, emotions, gestures, materials and images, which could relate to the world outside it,” the artist explains. For a recent project she made paintings and video inspired by the metaphor of the discus thrower; the elliptical curves and repeated, rhythmic shapes on her linen canvases articulate the kind of balance, external and internal, expressed through fixed rotation. Popova’s films, which deal with overt imbalances such as Cold War topics and radioactivity, seem the perfect counterpoint to her 2D work, the flipside of the same theme.

For more information you can visit her website, or the Figge Von Rosen gallery where she currently has an exhibition.

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