“Elina Flyrin creates imagery that simultaneously feels alien and familiar, with a multidisciplinary practice that includes drawing, painting and textiles. Originally from Stockholm, Sweden, she graduated from Goldsmiths University of London, Fine Art in 2019.
Within her imagery, boundaries dissolve into abstraction: boundaries between the physical and the intangible, the interior and exterior. Her work can be interpreted as an exploration, a search for answers, although sometimes to rhetorical questions. Regardless of material, organic shapes emerge from their surface, leaving the audience with a feeling of being swept away with them.
‘I wish for there to be a sense of movement in my work: moving shapes and environments that have been held still in a frozen image. There is an energy that is created in that tension, and I think that it is possible to convey that: to invite someone to imagine a pattern of movement, if it is moving slow or fast, calmly or erratic, and what that might mean.”
(Text by Lovisa Ranta for ARTIQ)
Within her imagery, boundaries dissolve into abstraction: boundaries between the physical and the intangible, the interior and exterior. Her work can be interpreted as an exploration, a search for answers, although sometimes to rhetorical questions. Regardless of material, organic shapes emerge from their surface, leaving the audience with a feeling of being swept away with them.
‘I wish for there to be a sense of movement in my work: moving shapes and environments that have been held still in a frozen image. There is an energy that is created in that tension, and I think that it is possible to convey that: to invite someone to imagine a pattern of movement, if it is moving slow or fast, calmly or erratic, and what that might mean.”
(Text by Lovisa Ranta for ARTIQ)
