ARTISTS
Elena Shaura
Elena Shaura is an artist working between Monaco, Paris and London. Her practice spans installation, light-based environments, aluminum engravings, projection works and text-driven research. Shaura explores the evolving relationship between language, the body and systems of memory, treating text as a living material that shifts, mutates and acquires new forms of embodiment.
Recent series
Her recent series — Death of the Author, Journey of the Manuscript, Network Bodies and Bodies of the Text — investigate how manuscripts, signals and fragments of narrative circulate through physical and digital space. These projects position language as an unstable organism: something that can be rewritten, displaced or extended beyond its author.
Birth Struggle of the Script
80 × 80 cm
Mixed media
Mixed media
In parallel, Shaura develops art and science works that examine hybrid corporeality and computational behavior. Her individual experimental objects, including USBRUSH, Sweeping Pendulum, Child Network Support and Early Learning, engage with sensory systems, algorithmic traces and the materiality of interaction.
Across all of her work, Shaura constructs environments where reading becomes an embodied and spatial act. Through the interplay of metal, light, projection and textual residue, her practice reveals the fragile threshold between language, memory and presence.
Artist statement by Elena Shaura
"My practice explores the shifting relationship between text, the body and systems of memory. Working across installation, light-based environments and research-based structures, I investigate how meaning is produced, erased and rewritten within both physical and digital space. In my works, text seeks a new form of embodied presence — a body that can survive translation, fragmentation and technological mediation.
Recent projects — Death of the Author, Journey of the Manuscript, Network Bodies and Bodies of the Text — examine the written word as a mutable organism: a manuscript that travels, mutates and outlives its origin. I treat language as a living body, subject to distortion, interference and reassembly, while the viewer becomes part of the network in which interpretation unfolds.
Alongside my solo practice, I am a member of the collective Extrapart. Within the broader field of art & science, my individual projects — including USBRUSH, Sweeping Pendulum, Child Network Support and Early Learning — explore sensory systems, computational behaviors and hybrid embodiments that arise at the intersection of technology and human experience. Some of these works have been presented within collaborative and group exhibition contexts.
Through the interplay of light, transparency and spatial rhythm, my works construct environments where reading becomes an embodied act and narratives dissolve into signals, gestures and traces. Each project reveals the fragile boundary between language, memory and presence, proposing new forms of textual and bodily existence."
Ivan Shalmin
Ivan lived and worked in Moscow, Russia. Born in Novosibirsk in 1959, died on the 17th July 2022. Studied at Kyibishev NISI (Novosibirsk Institute of Engineering and Construction), faculty of architecture, town planning section. Over the last 20 years he has designed and built (with assistance) more than 70 architectural and interior design projects.
In 2016, Ivan began to create digital paintings. His first solo exhibitions of art and architecture took place in 2020, in Moscow and Novosibirsk.
In 2016, Ivan began to create digital paintings. His first solo exhibitions of art and architecture took place in 2020, in Moscow and Novosibirsk.
© 2025. Elena Shaura
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