ELINA BRY

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Good Morning Japan

 

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Scotland
2018 Good Morning Japan is a video work by Elina Bry that reflects on the body’s vulnerabilities, medical routines, and personal encounters with the UK healthcare system. Through a blend of performance and autobiographical narrative, the piece revisits a lifelong struggle with migraines—tracing back to a childhood dismissal by a doctor who accused her of mimicking her mother. In response, Bry turns to a Japanese exercise routine, using it as both a coping mechanism and a choreographed expression of bodily resilience. The work thoughtfully navigates themes of misdiagnosis, routine, and reclaiming agency over one's own health.

Good Morning Japan has been exhibited as part of Bry’s MFA degree show at the Glue Factory in Glasgow, and internationally in exhibitions such as Dare You Do This? FFFF it! (Taiwan) and Feeling Myself at Lakeside Clinic (Hungary).


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Creative Degrowth Scotland ELINA BRY is French/Finnish, Glasgow based multidisciplinary artist and award-winning filmmaker. They work across video, storytelling and live performance, and is interested at listening to and re-staging the malfunctions of the human body. They are curious about the body as a sentient arena; as a responsive tool and as a protagonist of an everyday drama. By that, they investigate the known, model it and work in collaboration with the instability of their body. It is essential that they don't cause any harm as they want to challenge their body with the everyday, in order to give a stage and witness what is already there.
The thematic undercurrents of ecology and slow travel prominently weave through their artistic endeavours. Through their multidisciplinary approach, they seek to unravel the nuanced interplay between the human form and its environment, exploring the intricacies of the body while maintaining a conscientious connection to ecological and sustainable principles.