Biography
The artist:
Elena Ballarin is an artist originally from Venice, Italy, where she has studied Cinema, Theater and Visual Arts.
Now based in Berlin, she is producing works focused on the art technique of Collage; especially centered on an intimate research about human existentialism, she creates a deep interaction between her mind and the images created on the collages, aimed at an achievement of a constant feeling of - at same time peaceful and euphoric - happiness and relax. The whole process is based on a extremely intense relationship between her art and her everyday life, which can to all intents and purposes be defined one same unit.
The project:
Is it possible to feel constantly happy and relaxed? is a question, an experiment, a challenge, an art project, a life project, a work in progress.
It is a path inside the mind whose goal is the attainment of a full control of it, so as to erase any sort of possible negative feeling.
The human mind works by images; a negative feeling is the result of the association of a bad image to a certain episode. But bad images can be changed: the point is being trained to do it.
In the project the artist asks herself if it is possible to reach such a high level of practice to be able to replace any negative image with a positive one even before the negative images become a negative feeling inside the mind, and consequently the body.
The artist is testing the whole experiment on herself, using collage technique as a basic support for the creation of new positive images to fix in the mind in place of the negative ones.
