Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW LandEscape meets elisELIS Elis is a multi(inter)disciplinary Kyiv freelance artist-wonderer, psycho muse and visual philosopher. She investigates the culture and mentality of collage, the other side of mistakes and imperfections, exploring the body and physicality and the world around her through performance, installation, text, collage, photography and video. She prefers to stay on the verge of rawness and marginal beauty creating her own dystopian magic. Elis’s artworks are very performative physical pieces, they are full of psychological stories and if looked closer dynamic, all processes are visible, while her performances-happenings are full of collaged actions and concepts. Elis’ art practice is as much therapeutic and personal as it is social, and intended for an attentive modern (at times melancholic) viewer. Her Soviet origins and artistic philosophy (as well as metamodern views) prompt the artist to question and challenge the modern understanding of herself, culture and identity. Elis’s art practice is about truth and freedom, about imperfection and the passage of time, about life and death. Her art practice (and life) are based on noticing details, looking thoroughly, peeking and observing and playing a game of a detective (or a spy or a pervert), and satisfying her voyeuristic personality. She likes things that look like mistakes and stays away from banalities. She sees and looks at the world through a prism of collage. Each project is not like the previous one because Elis is (as an artist) different, because the environment is unalike - it's just like the philosophical statement by Aristotle "you cannot step into the same river twice". And she is kind of following this truth (subconsciously) in her artistic practice. Elis is in constant motion in her body and mind. The collage of life is projected into her multidisciplinary search and acquaintance with every new experience. Elis is a founder and organizer of Kyiv Collage Practice group and метаCOLLAж (visual anthropological artbook‑zine about multidisciplinary collage mentality and culture in the world). @elis_prostotak An interview by Josh Ryder, curator artistic production we would like to invite and Melissa C. Hilborn, curator our readers to visit https://bio.site/eliselis in [email protected] order to get a wide idea about your artistic Hello Elis and welcome toLandEscape. production, and we would start this Before starting to elaborate about your interview with a couple of questions about