Elsa Ohana

Born in Paris in 1986, Elsa Ohana is an engraver and a graduate of the Plastic Arts and is currently based in Istanbul.

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Initially trained in Philosophy, she graduated in Arts and Art Sciences at the Panthéon Sorbonne University. Given her ongoing desire to learn new forms of art, she trained in engraving at the “Ateliers de l’Ecole supérieure d’Art et de Design” of Valence, France.

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Her artistic practice combines contemporary printmaking, installation, stage devices and questions the micro-narratives of the feminine and collective memory. A tree structure of the intimate composed of fragments and elastic spaces that questions the body as a space of physical, intimate and political crossing. Between figuration and abstraction, how to create a work in transit?

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Her research questions the print as a shaping of a mobile thought that develops and is aware of all sorts of states and “becomings”. This system, with multiple inputs and outputs, plays with fusion by associating prints, pictorial technique and engraving. Networks of lines and links where bodies form a non-linear, fragmented and disconcerting narrative.

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A “hybrid cryptogram”, organic, vegetal, human and mineral as an invitation to think of the different links in our lives as a rhizome, arborescence or labyrinth of our intimates.

Body lines, organic patterns, whirlwinds, folds and concretions form an inner cosmology.

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How can Print dialogue with the areas of sensitivity? Graphic territories, lines with multiple “becomings”, hybridization and open devices at the heart of a journey and an approach of visual exploration of contemporary printmaking.