Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: Artistic Exploration with Unconventional Materials
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Macedonian artist Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva works across sculpture, installation, video, photography and architectural intervention, with materials ranging from the ephemeral and precious to the downright strange.She works using animal organs, transforming the perishable waste products into artistic materials via a chemical process akin to embalming.“I’ve spent years and years trying to preserve certain things in different ways. Skin is no problem, but organs are very hard to keep alive. They’re fragile.”For her solo exhibition at the Djanogly Gallery in Nottingham, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva will show “Haruspex” — a piece commissioned for last year’s Venice Biennale — which responds to the scriptural verse “In the Beginning… the Word became flesh.” <br />At the center of the installation is a chalice-like form made from a cow’s stomach.Working with very raw materials, the caul fat of the pig creates the canopy and walls of the “tent of meeting.”
