{"id":457,"date":"2025-09-11T17:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.collectivememoryis.com\/?page_id=457"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:15:56","slug":"elina-vitola","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.collectivememoryis.com\/index.php\/en\/elina-vitola\/","title":{"rendered":"El\u012bna V\u012btola"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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El\u012bna’s conceptual work features expressive painting, complex objects, and site-specific projects inspired by personal stories. El\u012bna works with the medium of painting as a performative element, often combining this technique with ready-made objects or already existing everyday backdrops, which she imbues with new meaning by emphasizing their visuality. Within the framework of her themes, she addresses family history and related topics, which she examines in depth. Through her work, she comes to terms with the information she uncovers, further processing and contextualising it. <\/span><\/p>

El\u012bna earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in painting from the Latvian Academy of Art. She is the winner of the 2018 Nordic and Baltic Young Artist Award and she was shortlisted for the Purv\u012btis Prize in 2021. Her works are in the collections of the Latvian National Museum of Art and the European Patent Office Collection. In the past, El\u012bna was a curator at Riga Circus Elephant Stables and LOW gallery. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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