Fellows Exhibition: Elena Kovylyaeva 
Ceremony

Opening: Friday, April 18, 5-8 PM
On View April 18 to 27, 2025
Hudson D. Walker Gallery

Visual Arts Fellow (2024-2025) Elena Kovylyaeva in her studio

A series of prints made from discarded Riso master pages is glued to the walls. They are images I didn’t create, but found and repurposed. You are invited to rip them off, to participate in their disappearance. Leaving behind only traces, the space becomes a surface for memory and erosion.

These prints, titled Remnants, emerge from a nomadic practice rooted in collecting. Since 2022, I’ve been working with found and discarded materials, cheap consumer goods, things not meant to last. An abundance of trash from the street becomes treasure. I collect what others leave behind and turn it into something fragile, poetic, and temporary.

Having never called a place home for long, I search for grounding in small details. I walk, I look, I gather. This practice of noticing is my home. Pieces that were once cheap, forgotten, and unloved are cared for, preserved, transformed into tender architecture. My process is a meditation on impermanence.
What does it mean to leave a mark that won’t last?

This show marks the end of the seven-month FAWC fellowship in Provincetown. It’s a ceremony, a gesture of letting go, of returning borrowed things, of saying goodbye. Not just to the work, but to the people, a temporary home, gifted time.

You are invited to rearrange, displace, and intervene with the objects. The space is open for interaction and change. Nothing here is meant to last.

 

Please note: The gallery is available to visit from Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 pm. Please visit the administrative offices to be shown to the gallery.

About the Artist

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Elena Kovylyaeva is a visual artist based in Leipzig, Germany, whose work examines the intersection of materiality and memory. Using found materials, she creates detailed tactile surfaces that engage the body, incorporating elements of painting, textile art, and sculpture. Born in Russia and raised in Düsseldorf, Germany from the age of five, Kovylyaeva studied film and literature in Berlin before pursuing painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, where she graduated with a diploma in 2020. She then earned her MFA in painting from the Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, supported by Fulbright and DAAD scholarships, from 2021 to 2023. In 2022, she participated in the Fulbright Artist Residency at the Silvermine Arts Center in Connecticut. Kovylyaeva’s work has been exhibited in both Germany and the USA, including at the Grimaldis Gallery and the Peale Museum in Baltimore.

Gallery Accessibility Information

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