Elektra KB, Deconstructing Borders

Roman Fine Art in East Hampton presents "Deconstructing Borders: The Flux of Dissent," its first solo project with artist Elektra KB, opening Friday with a reception from 6 to 8 PM, and running through February 19. Elektra KB, born in Odessa, Ukraine, is a Colombian artist living and working in Berlin and New York. KB's body of work is of a performative nature. Textile, photography, and video are her primary mediums. The show features six new GIFs highlighting KB's fantastical world, The Theocratic Republic of Gaia (T.R.O.G.). The T.R.O.G. plays with critical humor and the aesthetics of colonial art tropes and the insurgent struggle KB grew up with. The Papesse, the veiled women, the guerrilla fighter are represented as well as pre-Hispanic imagery and the cross -- an autobiographical nod to her upbringing in a rural hospital in Colombia. "Deconstructing Borders" speaks to issues about migration, mobility, transculturality, and a sense of place. The artwork presents the experience of migrant women. With today's current refugee and migrant crisis throughout the world, over 35,000 refugees and migrants have died in their attempt to reach or stay in Europe since 2000, with 2016 being the deadliest year by far. Many of the works included in "Deconstructing Borders" have culminated during KB's year-long fellowship in Berlin. She researched the experiences of migrant women from post-colonial societies focusing specifically on Latin-America, in the context of a city that is a post-soviet hybrid. KB interviewed several women who left their countries for a variety of reasons such as existential, economic, psychological, and political persecution. She created the works in response to this research. Each piece is inspired by an individual story, or a collective story. Visit www.romanfineart.com for more info.

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