Surface Tension

2024

Installation | Steel, water, mirrors, light, organic matter, dust, hybridization tubes, cast iron knit sample, welding curtain, percussion tools, surgical suture thread, resin, wax, x-ray, vibration, souped C-41 35mm film printed on acetate

Documentation: Pat Garcia and artist

Songbird's Syrinx (The ear perceives but cannot transmit)

2024

Installation | Steel, concrete, burnt wood, aluminum cast flax, envelope, activated carbon, c-print, tinted cyanotype bioplastic, cast heron's skull, granite, acrylic, fossilized pine resin, trīdeksnis, bells, sand

*Viewers are invited to walk on the sand or view the work from the periphery.

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Touch Holds the Future's Afterimage

2023

Sculpture | Steel, cast iron shuttle, sand, brass, handwoven jacquard cotton, stainless steel wire, paper, monofilament nylon, viscose

3’ x 3’4” x 4’

Images courtesy of Meghan Olsen

Decorative Elements (декоративные элементы)

2022

Sculpture | Aluminum, c-print, brass plate, handwoven jacquard textile, cotton, nylon, industrial sewing thread, 4’ x 4’ x 2’.

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Photo courtesy of May Shi

Aizsaule (A World Beyond the Sun)

2023

Installation in four parts

Epigraph

Kas to teica, tas meloja,

Ka Saulīte nakti guļ:

Vai Saulīte tur uzlēca,

Kur vakar norietēja?

***

(Mis)translation in English:

Whoever said that the Sun goes to sleep at night

Was lying.

Did the Sun not rise,

From where it lay to rest?

Meklējot papardes zieds (While searching for the fern flower), 2023

Steel, patina, pine, fern "fossil", fern plant, blind spot mirror, mortar, granite, c-print

Aizsaule (A world beyond the sun), 2023

Galvanized woven fencing, reinforced concrete brick, mortar, beeswax candle, c-print, sampled soundtrack in Livonian, Latvian, and French

Audio Link

Saulīte, tecēj’ tecēdama (The sun dripped while rising), 2023

Steel, patina, ad hoc theater stage light, machined aluminum, flax before retting in process to become linen, c-print

Kā augšā, tā apakšā (As above, so below), 2023

Steel, heat treatment, motor, weather symbol, stage tape, sand

Sakte

2024

Rubber, steel, hardware

2.5’ x 2.5’ x 2’

Dūmukli

2022

Installation | Oak and eucalyptus sauna brooms, mechanic’s wire, grey peas, linden flower, dill clay fossils, sandcastle, cedar shingles, steel, hydrocal, c-print, beeswax candles, 6’ x 6’ x 6’.

Photos courtesy of May Shi

Fold

2024

Sculpture | Handwoven jacquard textile (cotton, wool, stainless steel wire, elasthane), iron oxide, acorn and synthetic dye, ball chain, slide from Elektra with text “You kindle the fire that keeps me away”

12' x 1.5' x 1.5'

Documentation Vani Bhushan and artist

Additional artworks by Leor Miller

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Where the Two Seas Meet (Kūolka)

2022

Sculpture | Lead water casting, honey, birch bark, Baltic Sea water, oak bark tea, souped C41 35mm film roll, concrete column, steel, handwoven jacquard textile woven with cotton, nylon, wool, stainless steel coated thread, bleach, 7’ x 5’ x 4’.

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A Sharp Tongue Cuts Harder Than A Knife (Samizdat)

2019

Sculpture | Stainless steel thread, cotton stage cord, leather string, aluminum, 104” x 32” x 18”.

Photo courtesy of May Shi

Light Gradually Appears (Gaisma Aust)

2022

Sculpture | Red pine sapling, test tube, drop ceiling rod, drywall carving, Austra’s koks, aluminum foil ceiling medallion pressing, thermometer replica, gypsum driftwood, cotton, polyester stainless steel thread, framing lumber, mechanic’s wire, brass, c-print, 5’ x 4’ x 2’.

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Meanwhile - Contact Points - Therblig Word Play - Thresholds

Installation in three parts | Gypsum cement, spray paint, ratchet tie down straps, pulleys, bubble wrap, gravel, outdoor patio stones, jack chain, soldered spray painted copper, aluminium panels, theatre gels, jasmine flower, zip ties, off cuts of woven metal siding, hemp, lycra, cotton, silicone, handwoven hemp bandages

Images courtesy of Yuula Benivolski

Therblig Wordplay, 2019

Aluminum, eye hooks, jack chain, soldered spray painted copper, paper tape

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Threshold, 2019

Aluminum, handwoven hemp and lycra bandages, silicone, jasmine flower, zip ties, architectural metal siding, theatre light gels, mirrored acrylic

Contact Points, 2019

Ratchet tie down straps, pulleys, bubble wrap, gravel, outdoor patio stones, spray painted gypsum joints, flagging tape

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What Will Have Been

2017

Installation | Handwoven jacquard textile installation with cotton, monofilament nylon, mylar, graphite, aluminum, 7.5' x 6.5' x 8'.

Tools To Hold Traces

2016

Two person exhibition Anouk Desloges and Helen Liene Dreifelds

Outside the Lines | November 23 - December 22, 2016

Lonsdale Gallery

Exhibition documentation courtesy of Lonsdale Gallery

Écoulement (view 1), 2016

C-print, edition of 3, 22" x 15"

Space Between You and I (Qualia)

2016

Installation | Handwoven monofilament nylon, 5' x 4' x 3.5'.

Collaborative Projects

Soft Walls

2019

Video and performance | 3 mins 18 seconds.

Through the performance of Soft Walls, denirée isabel, Helen Liene Dreifelds and Emma Aurelia explore the idea of extended technique in weaving.

In thoughtful defiance of tradition, they strive to stretch their relationship with material, process and one another. They ask: what can we achieve when we work collectively and unconventionally?

In what ways can we reimagine structures of support, tension and extension? Ultimately, how can we deepen the connection to ourselves, machines and to one another?

Music by Blutonic Choir (Emma Aurelia & Miles Breithaupt)

Video by Yu Zheng

Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council for their support in making this project.

Entre le chien et le loup

2024

Installation | Projection, sound, steel, drop cloth, thread in collaboration with Wiktor Freifeld

3 mins

*Project developed through partnership between Yale School of Drama - Lighting Projection and Yale School of Art - Sculpture, presented at the Schwarzman Center

Early Works

2014 - 2019

Variation, 2016

Handwoven shadow weave. 60" x 90" x 0.5".

What We Breathe In, 2018

Participatory installation | Handwoven monofilament nylon and polyester thread towels, silicone bathtub caulking, ice machine tubing with spray misters, modified gas pumps, drop ceiling hanger wire, screen printed posters, and cast rubble with hydrocal and soap, 8’ x 6 ’x 4’.

Phase Change (Resist), 2018

Site Specific Installation | C-print of durational handwoven blanket performance, monofilament nylon, metal wire, wool, cotton, liquid rubber, polyester thread, jelly cord

Phase Change (Reveal), 2018,

Site Specific Installation | C-print of durational object performance of handwoven blanket, resist dyed monofilament nylon, metal wire, silicone, polyester thread, 60” x 45”.

Now That You're Here, 2017

Handwoven digital jacquard cloth with cotton, viscose, stainless steel wire, slide projector, glass slide, sand, and reflective glass powder. 3’ x 3.5’ x 4.5’.

Through Me, See You, 2017

Sculpture | Handwoven monofilament nylon, spray paint, pulleys, stage cord, monoprint plywood stage, loom harnesses.

La durée, 2017

Installation | Handwoven monofilament nylon, polyester, cotton, cassette tape, liquid rubber, spray paint, jelly cord, wire, 43" x 35" x 17".

Vainags Tevi Apedis (The Wreath Will Eat You), 2019

Sculpture | Found curtain, mirrored acrylic, plaster cast of a sponge, cantaloupe, bandaid, sand, steel support, dill, foraged weeds, 23" x 16" x 6".

Within Reach, 2016

Installation | Handwoven double weave monofilament nylon, spray paint mono prints, corrugated roofing panels, stone paper.

It Started With A Line, 2016

Sculpture | Handwoven shadow weave, cotton industrial sewing thread and monofilament nylon

How To Pause Light, 2015

C-print of handwoven monofilament nylon, 16" x 20".

care of - indigo no. 1 (expansion), 2014

Sculpture | Handwoven digital jacquard samite, dyed indigo cotton, linen, merino wool, embroidery floss, dyed machine knit monofilament cords, 16” x 20” x 12”.

Photo courtesy of Antoine Guilhem-Ducléon

care of - noir de mars, no. 1 (fluidity), 2014

Sculpture | Handwoven digital jacquard samite, cotton, linen, merino wool, embroidery floss, dyed machine knit monofilament cords, 7.5" x 7.5" x 4".

Photo courtesy of Olivier Gariépry

care of - écru, no. 1 et no. 2 (fluidity), 2014

Sculpture | Handwoven digital jacquard samite, cotton, linen, merino wool, embroidery floss, machine knit monofilament cords, 15" x 15" x 8" et 7.5" x 7.5" x 4".

Photo courtesy of Antoine Guilhem-Ducléon

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Surface Tension

Songbird's Syrinx (The ear perceives but cannot transmit)

Touch Holds the Future's Afterimage

Decorative Elements (декоративные элементы)

Aizsaule (A World Beyond the Sun)

Sakte

Dūmukli

Fold

Where the Two Seas Meet (Kūolka)