(b. 90s)
Italy
She is a member of Artists' Association MUU, and was ranked second among the top 10 finalists in the last edition of the Exibart Prize. Since 2018, Gelain has worked with peer Bekim Hasaj and now the artists have strengthened their collaboration as a duo. Their research draws from the rural and natural environment, interacting deeply with its elements. Investigating the land's forms and physicality, or penetrate symbolism that can be traced back to human beings.
The upcoming projects carry forward the research between artist, nature and art making in rural areas.
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Duration: 1:32
2024
This short film investigates through an essential poetic and symbolic narrative the connection, or rather, the inextricable nature of entities and their coexistence (from a human perspective), and the need of authentic inner-improvement for real personal and collective change.
The main themes of the project are the psychic instances, the connection between them, and what can be achieve if we actively connect to the unconscious and try to overcome the passive and illusory condition we perpetrate with our 'conscious' state.
Bekim Hasaj (camera operator)
Stefan Backas (sound designer / the sound of the video is an extrapolation of the original sound of the art film ‘The Peaks’)
'The Peaks' project is funded by Svenska Kulturfonden, Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet & Arts Promotion Centre Finland-Taike.