Elsa Ohana

Elsa Ohana (1986, Paris) is an engraving artist and certified art teacher, currently based in Istanbul. Her artistic practice combines contemporary printmaking, installation and scenographic devices, questioning micro-narratives of femininity and collective memory. A tree structure of intimacy composed of fragments and elastic spaces that questions the body as a space of physical, intimate and political passage. Between figuration and abstraction, how can a passage be turned into a work of art?

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Her research questions printmaking as a way of giving form to a mobile thought that develops and experiences all kinds of states and ‘becomings’. This system, with multiple inputs and outputs, plays with fusions by combining prints, pictorial technique and engraving.

Networks of lines and links where bodies form a non-linear, fragmented and confusing narrative.

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A ‘hybrid cryptogram’, organic, vegetal, human and mineral, like an invitation to think of the different links in our lives as a rhizome, a tree structure or a labyrinth of our innermost selves.

Body lines, organic patterns, swirls, folds and concretions form an inner cosmology.

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How can printmaking engage in dialogue with the realm of the senses? Graphic territories, lines with multiple futures, hybridisation and open-ended devices at the heart of a journey and an approach to the visual exploration of contemporary printmaking.