The Middle Way © Elena Lyakir
The Highline Loft 508 W 26th street 5th floor NYC États-Unis
The Highline Loft proudly presents Punctuated History, an exhibition of work from New York based artist Elena Lyakir. Punctuated History combines selected photography from the artist's ongoing series with new large-scale photographs from her recent series Dreams, inspired by Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation Of Dreams.
Using nature as her primary subject, Lyakir pushes the photographic medium to suggest the illusion of charcoal drawings and painterly abstractions. In Dreams, Lyakir continues with avian subject matter of past series while exploring how dreams reveal themselves in the physical world, asserting meaning into the waking life; an aesthetic window into a dream world that is poetic, contemplative, and haunting through images filled with texture, energy, and movement.
The photographs of Punctuated History are a physical testament to the sentiments of Lyakir’s personal history shown through visual metaphors of poetic longing, melancholy, dreams and other complexities of the human condition. The images involve the viewer through self-reflection by evoking memory, facilitating the sensation of feeling, and confronting the awareness of their own state of being.
Black bird fly © Elena Lyakir
“The work on display is a manifestation of a process of deconstruction of thought. It is, in a sense, a tool I use to communicate to the viewer a message of encouragement to pause and experience the essence of time and space. In this way, the visual experience becomes an emotional one. I would like my audience to literally exist and move within the images as if they were moving through someone’s body. I am interested in creating art that is visceral and connected to emotion.” –Lyakir
Lyakir’s work is internationally recognized and is included in many private collections. Her photography is on display in New York City at Spring Gallery, Clic Gallery, and Ochre. Large-scale images from her “Aves” and “Poetry Of Nature” series’ decorate the walls of renowned chef Jean-George Vongerichten’s James Beard award winning Manhattan eatery, ABC Kitchen.
In addition, the photography exhibition will feature a collection of bold, organic furniture and sculpture of Brooklyn-based artist and designer Eric Slayton.
As the palms spell your name © Elena Lyakir
Photographies et vignette © Elena Lyakir