Elina Bry, considers herself as a French/Finnish, both equally.
In 2018 she gained her MFA at Glasgow School of Art.
As a multidisciplinary and collaborator she moves in between writing, performance, video, photography, drawing and etching; often combined, communicating to each other.
Communication in between mediums is an essential part of my practice as each medium has its own strength in the development of my work. I am currently exploring the weaknesses of the body as a medium, considering the inner as a tool. By that, I explore the unexpected, what is already there, model it and work in collaboration with the instability of my body. It is essential that I don’t cause any harm as I want to challenge my body with the everyday, the known, in order to give a stage and witness what is already there. I use my voice to portrait the inner of my body, twisting the tubes to found the different tones. Far from being pleasant, I engage with the uncanniness we all have. I see language and translation as a medium, not only spoken or written but translation in cultural behaviors. The ones we are taught from an early age and don’t realize they are part of us until we encounter an unexpected manner. I play around with the cultural differences I observe and found inspiration with my interlocutor.
Autobiography becomes my methodology but I am attentive for it not to become the subject of my work. It combines different tools and methods, such as performance, storytelling, stage making and my body. These are all the methods which are combined in order to create my methodology, my tool box, my practice. Playing with the undefined borders in between my work and my personal life, I put myself at risk; but why shouldn’t I.
EXHIBITION
* COMING UP *
15.09 2019: EXHALE/Berlin Art Week Decompression, ZÖNOTÉKA, Berlin, Germany
30.09-3.10 : Je n'ai pas de limite, Les Beaux Arts du Mans, France
04.10-06.10: Hells Belles, Barão de São João, Portugal
April 2020 : Residency Ho Chi Minh, "My Brother's Heart", Vietnam
2019
2019 If E was V, solo presentation, Arkadia OY, Helsinki
2019 GLA/NYC Love Hangover, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
2019 Bless Your Heart, EMBASSY, Edinburgh
2019 Dare you do this ? FFFF it! Taiwan Gangshan Dist Contemporary Art Warehouse International Exchange Program, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Glide&Slide2, Performance Event, Keir Street, Glasgow
2018 House Guests, Hampton Court Guest House, Glasgow
2018 Launch of Wet Courage, by E.C.C.O, Pipe Factory, Glasgow
2018 Glide&Slide, Performance Event, Keir Street, Glasgow
2018 Down Material Mouth, AMIF, Tramway, Glasgow
2018 Morbus, Tontine Building, Glasgow
2018 Cabbage, Junkspace: Tap for Sound -Audio and visual screening,
2018 Glasgow
2018 International Bike Polo Championship: Hell's Belles Vol.8, Victoria
2018 Park,Glasgow
2018 Speculation on Marsh Lands, The Carnival Centre, Glasgow
2018 SIMPLY BEAMING, Hope, Engaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Screening for Maruseppu Art Residency , Maruseppu, Hokkaido,
2018 Japan
2018 MFA Degree Show, Glue Factory, Glasgow
2018 MFA at CitizenM, Glasgow
2018 Esther Ferrer : "I’m Going To Tell You About My Life", Pearce
2018 Institue, GI Festival, Glasgow
2018 Flat Cam, GY Festival, Glasgow
2018 Skip Ad-Play, Savoy Center, GY Festival, Glasgow
2017 Girls in Print: Female Figures in British Comics, Dundee, Scotland
2017 MFA Interim Show, Reid Gallery, Glasgow
2017 Lights Out, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Scotland
2015 The BIG Big Show, Ecole Superieur des Beaux Arts du Mans, France
2015 Premier Plan, Angers, France
2015 Les Photographiques, Le Mans, France
2014 La Quinzaine Radieuse #6, Piacé-Le-Radieux, France
2014 DMC & Friends at the Dourven,Gallerie du Dourven, France
2014 At Home, Projet D’exposition en Appartement, Le Mans, France
PUBLICATION
2018 Cabbitches, Published by JJ Tipton
2018 Morbus., Published by Christiana Myers
2018 If E was V, Graphic Novel, Les Editions Du Soleil D’Hiver
2017 Growing Up: That Girl Comic, Team Girl Comic, Women Comic Collective
2015 SCREENPLAY / SCÉNARIO, The Good Reader, Ma Bibliothèque
TALK/WORKSHOP
2018 "JE, n'est pas le Sujet mais le Verbe", Les Beaux Art du Mans, France
2017 Panel Event : Women in Comics, Dundee, Scotland
2017 Home, Comic Event, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, Scotland
RESIDENCY
2014 Osthang Project, Living Together, Collectif Etc, Darmstadt, Germany
EDUCATION
2016-2018 MFA, Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2012-2015 Bachelor Degree in Fine Art, DNAP, Ecole des Beaux Art du Mans, France