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Elina Merenmies

artist

Elina Merenmies

  • Born
  • Finland
Konstverk: Elina Merenmies, Swamp, 2004
Elina Merenmies, Swamp, 2004

Elina Merenmies follows in the figurative tradition, with formats ranging from small drawings to large scale paintings. The cast of characters depicted and the tales told reveal the leaning of the artist towards singular contexts and phenomena. Her gaze is often directed towards existential darkness. Human anxiety and loneliness are recurring themes in Merenmies’s work, but humour is at least as important. Suffering is countered by hope, with links here to the martyr tradition found in Christian art. Elina Merenmies’s pictures are unique meeting points for myths, folktales, dreams and hallucinations. There are traces in her visual idiom of her previous experience of performance art, experimental music, and new painting techniques as computer aided painting.

More works by the artist

Konstverk: Elina Merenmies, Utan titel, 2010
Elina Merenmies, Untitled, 2010
Konstverk: Elina Merenmies, Flu, 2003
Elina Merenmies, Flu, 2003
Konstverk: Elina Merenmies, Repent King Hero, 2015
Elina Merenmies, Repent King Hero, 2015
Konstverk: Elina Merenmies, Boy, 2002
Elina Merenmies, Boy, 2002
Konstverk: Elina Merenmies, There Must Be an Angel Playing with My Heart, 2006
Elina Merenmies, There Must Be an Angel Playing with My Heart, 2006