PRZESZŁOŚĆ TO OBCY KRAJ
STRANGE COUNTRY IV

19.10 / 24.11.2024
EL CHICO
MADRID
SPAIN

PHOTOS: GORO STUDIO

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TRACING SILENCE

23.10 / 11.11.2023
MIAMI SURVEY
MIAMI
USA

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PRZESZŁOŚĆ TO OBCY KRAJ 
THE PAST IS A STRANGE COUNTRY

02.04 / 02.07.2023
CERVANTES INSTITUTE
WARSAW
POLAND

PHOTOS: WOJCIECH ROZENEK

Monographic exhibition of Elián Stolarsky whose work is the product of a constant investigation (or personal-emotional search) in which the artist is related to her generational history, linked from multiple moments that she considers her own: with her country of birth, Uruguay, and with the origin of their immigrant relatives (Poles, Turks, Sephardim). The title is taken from the work of the American historian and geographer David Lowenthal.

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PLASMA

04.11 / 05.12.2021
BTM OFFICINA
VENECIA
ITALIA

PHOTOS: GIOVANNI BORGA

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STRANGE COUNTRY CHAPTER 1
ABOUT MAPS AND PLANS

28.10 / 18.11.2021
CENTRO CULTURAL LA PARCERÍA
MADRID
SPAIN

PHOTOS: VALENTÍN BENOIT

From textiles, Elián Stolarsky has weaved part of his artistic work with family stories of migration and violence, in an exercise of memory that creates circular and personal bridges with the past...

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INVENTORY 17
A PHOTOGRAPH WHICH MIGHT BE OF ANYBODY

08.01 / 10.01.2021
POSADA AYANA
JOSÉ IGNACIO
URUGUAY

PHOTOS: EDUARDO BALDIZÁN AND MATÍAS GANDUGLIA

In its inaugural exhibition, LÍQUIDO will present the most recent textile works by multidisciplinary Uruguayan artist Elián Stolarsky. Stolarsky investigates images related to war and migration duringthe 20th century, which she then translates into abstract, hand-sewn textiles. The works thus incite a slow reading of photography–different from what we are accustomed to today. ...

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AND ALL THE OTHERS      

26.04 / 10.06.2018
MNAV
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF VISUAL ARTS
MONTEVIDEO
URUGUAY

PHOTOS: EDUARDO BALDIZÁN AND MATÍAS GANDUGLIA

Despite her youth, artist Elián Stolarsky (Montevideo, 1990) has an exceptionally productive activity, with a strong projection in the local and international milieus. She has traveled a formative path –that has not stopped– in which multiple inspirations mutually reinforce each other towards plastic art discoveries, but which also has included incursions in the areas of philosophy, literature, theater and dance...

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GCE (SPANISH CIVIL WAR)

15.11 / 18.11.2018
FIG
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE GRABADO Y ARTE SOBRE PAPEL
BILBAO
SPAIN

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COLO(U)RED 

27.07 / 07.10.2018
KALA ART INSITUTE
BERKELEY
CALIFORNIA
USA

“Coloured” refers both to the concept as well as the technique chosen in order to address those ideas. Throughout colouring four layers (cmyk) I create the sensation of a 3d image. A way to bring back to life, to keep it present. Millions of hand carved lines that obsessively draw and re draw the same faces. As remembrances that keep appearing; that are even similar to the ones of my family story.

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GENEALOGY 

26.02 / 18.03.2017
CASA DE VELÁZQUEZ
MADRID
SPAIN

PHOTOS: ALEJANDRO RAMIREZ ARIZA

The Genealogy piece aims to return to the photo an artificial three-dimensionality. The dismemberment of the elements that build the image, allow me to understand, digest and relive that which is neither comprehensible, nor digestible and much less capable of being experienced again. Throughout layers I try, knowingly and uselessly, to reconstruct the lost spatiality of memory.


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WHEN THE WORDS BURN IN THE FIREPLACE

03 / 09.2017
CABILDO
MONTEVIDEO 
URUGUAY

PHOTOS: MATÍAS GANDUGLIA

The dimension of the emigrant who from Europe brought only what could fit in their pockets. That built his life step by step in the department of Trenta y Tres. The story of my family, as another case. From the original photograph, from a few centimetres to an image where the bodies are real size. Images that repeat themselves, that are multiplied.

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CAMPO ARTFEST

28.12.2017
CAMPO ART FAIR
PUEBLO GARZÓN 
URUGUAY

VIDEO: ALAN LÓPEZ

DOLL´S GAME/ CHECKERS
In spanish the name for the game “chackers”, means litterly translated “doll´s game”.

01.12.2016 / 05.03.2017
EAC
CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE
MONTEVIDEO
URUGUAY

A board.
Eight women, eight exemplary ladies who knew how to deal with their multiple adversaries. Female poets that with their words, their acting, and their work, had to learn to deal with death.
Faces that stalk meticulously, which I engrave on plexiglass /on memory. Women that left an infinite legacy in their words and that today with my work I hope to pay them homage

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INVENTORY 7 + INVENTORY APOCRIPHA

15.06 / 31.08.2015
ESPACIO CULTURAL EMBAJADOR VICENTE MUÑIZ ARROYO MEXICAN EMBASSY
MONTEVIDEO
URUGUAY

VIDEO: AFONSO CRETENZE

Both projects are part of an infinite work in progress entitled "Inventory" composed of installations, which reflect the identity and memory, on porous thin line between reality and fiction when we talk about the past.

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INVENTORY 7 THE LINE AND THE DOTS

18.12.2014 / 24.01.2015
CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS
PARIS
FRANCIA

Elián Stolarsky, an Uruguayan artist proposes « Inventory 7, The Line and the Dots », 7th opus of a series of installations entitled "Inventory" that deals with identity and memory, and the blurry boundary between fiction and reality when talking about the past.

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INVENTORY FIRST PART

05.08.2013 / 04.10.2013
DODECA CULTURAL CENTER
MONTEVIDEO
URUGUAY

PHOTOS: ALFONSO CRETENZE

Installation based on 100 intervened boxes and hand-carved drypoint on plexiglas. Everyone is invited to this timeless room.

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THE HAND AND THE NAME

08.11.2013 / 08.12.2013
NCI
NUEVA CONGREGACIÓN ISRAELITA
MONTEVIDEO
URUGUAY

PHOTO AND VIDEO: ALFONSO CRETENZE

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