Autodidact French painter born in 1971, Elka has an atypical career, combining entrepreneurship and art. Her work, a tribute to femininity, makes the universe the empire of a woman : woman, women, the Creator, the one who gives life not only...
Read MoreAutodidact French painter born in 1971, Elka has an
atypical career, combining entrepreneurship and art.
Her work, a tribute to femininity, makes the
universe the empire of a woman : woman, women, the Creator, the one who gives
life not only by birth but also by thought. As Eve, who makes the first gesture
of freedom by tasting the apple and who is curious about knowledge, her Women
open the way to free will. « You girls, I will never forget
you ». A huge ode to all the women who have come before. Women who paved
the way, and made it easier.
Her latest series features Melinda Gates'
injunction, “Women must leave the margins and take their place, not above or
below men, but alongside them, at the centre of society.” She portrays a
feminism focused on how she sees life as a couple : each of the two sexes
should be able to admire each other, know that they can lean on the shoulder of
the other, and together, look in the same direction. In Elka Leonard’s work,
men and women are equal and complementary.
Her painting takes shape through a multitude of
protagonists who transform into universes with multiple vanishing points. The
decor is adorned with uninhabitable buildings and mirrors that reinforce the
opposition between the finite and the infinite, and reflect our feeling of
strangeness in front of the current world. An eye, both protective and
interior, watches the scene and strolls through the unconscious world that
surrounds it.
Elka dialogue with the overlapping epochs: the
supernatural rubs shoulders with the everyday life and the mythical intrudes in
the modern, the world then appears as a museum where to draw a new harmony. Her
work goes beyond the logic of realism, formalises the intangible of dreams, and
connects the past and the present. With anecdotes and references, she wants the
viewer to build his story from his mosaic of information.
Her works thus have an air of cinematic painting.
