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Elena Lyakir

Lives and works in brooklyn NY, USA
www.elenalyakir.com

In my work I attempt to bridge passion and sentiment of being, in essence turning each photograph into
with visual imagery. The images serve as kind of an opportunity for self-reflection. Using elements
an exposition of personal history that combines of nature as my primary subject, I push the limits of
my sense of poetic longing with the melancholy of the photographic medium to suggest the illusion of
diaspora. Each photograph is a physical testament to charcoal drawings and painterly abstractions. while
our humanness, metaphors for feelings, sensations, the natural depictions remain vivid, the images blur
desires and other complexities of the human and fade along the edges, almost as if the centrifugal
condition. Through art I seek to evoke memories, forces of my own displacement punctuate every
which facilitate the creation of present situations interpretation of my surroundings. I am very interested
involving viewers both emotionally and physically, in seeing that art stays connected to emotion.
thus confronting the awareness of their own states
dreaM oF GeneSiS, 2013 PHOTOGRAPHY 

hUnGer, 2007 PHOTOGRAPHY 

 Banded - toGether, 2008 PHOTOGRAPHY

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