Elena Kovylina is an influential Moscow and Paris-based artist whose
confrontational and visceral social critiques performances explore the
political significance of a woman’s experience in Russia today. Elena’s
performances are interactive spectacles in which all members of the audience
participate. She takes on roles of author, aggressor, and object of desire. The
artists work has included - a boxing ring in which everyone battled one
another; a tea party where the table was set alight; a new waltz where the
artist danced to exhaustion and a stool which everyone was invited to knock
from under her feet.
