L'Échelle et Moi
https://jeremiespace.com/2021/11/26/elina-bry/
Digital Residency
France/Scotland
2021In 2021, Elina Bry took part in a digital residency with Jérémie Space, reflecting on shared texts and responded to materials exchanged remotely. This form of collaboration—working with prompts, fragments, and digital artefacts—encouraged a slower, more introspective process. One recurring image that surfaced for EB during the residency was the ladder.
Going up a ladder gives us a different perspective, a way to look at the world differently. In my case, going up a ladder is my heritage—the one I have been given by my father. I never had problems with heights and enjoy stepping on the aluminium device. In contrast, my father has vertigo. One time, he stepped on both sides of the ladder, which is a health and safety issue. Of course, the one who designs the ladders doesn’t follow the rules—the cobbler’s children go barefoot.
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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.