Élan D’Orphium
2 November 2021 – 30 December 2021
He graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (2015) with Erasmus at Camberwell College (UAL, London, 2014). In 2019 she received the UCM Excellence Scholarship and completed the Master in Contemporary Art Research and Creation (MIAC).
Participate in programs such as Matadero creates the Matadero Artistic Residency Center; XXXI Plastic Arts Circuits of the Community of Madrid (2021); “But is this art?” in CA2M (2019); Encounters Without Credits in Sala el Águila (2018); Ordinary Sociology, in Medialab Prado (2018); as an assistant in ”The death of the clinic” in the activity We speak for our difference in MNCARS (2019); Intermediae (2018-2019); AMIL Project and Matadero Residences (Lima, 2019); “Lima is not Madrid” in Espacio ESpositive (2019); SALMON FESTIVAL together with Las Bajas Pasiones (Barcelona, 2020); “What comes back is a butterfly” at Aldama Fabre Gallery (2019); Karabanchel Transfeminist Conferences (2019) and Transmaribibollo Conferences (2008/19); QUEER FURY (2019); La Roboterie (Rome, 2019); STARDVST (2019) and Minitel (2019).
Project in residence
Ilusión del género
Élan proposes a study on the expression of gender from a pictorial point of view, in which he intends to demonstrate that gender, in binary terms, is an image and therefore something imitable. Between identity and gender expression appears what she will call the “illusion of gender”, revealing it as a copy sedimented between layers of oil paint which, like the praxis of painting, is learnt by modelling.
Through different formats (drawing, painting, make-up, video and photography) he will explore this illusion in depth as one of the tricks of transformism.
“When Zeuxis unveiled his painting of grapes, they looked so exquisite and tempting that birds came down from the sky and tried to peck at them. Zeuxis then asked Parrasius to pull back the curtain on his painting, only for Parrasius to then reveal that the curtain itself was a painting (…)”.
Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia, Book 35
Selected project of the II Call for Artistic Residencies 2021
