Elektra KB.

The Theocratic Republic of Gaia Catalytic Mantle

2012-02-01T23:54:00.000-08:00

Embroidery of Beings of The Theocratic Republic of Gaia

2012-02-01T23:24:00.000-08:00

Photographing "It's All In Your Head Pieces" at the West Side Gallery

2012-02-01T22:58:00.000-08:00

Photo by Derek Kalisher

La Poupée of The Theocratic Republic of Gaia

2012-02-01T22:33:00.000-08:00

Assignment # 2

2012-02-01T22:10:00.000-08:00

I have been assigned to write what has influenced my practice as an artist. I feel I am pretending sanity, or rehearsing sanity and striving to be rational. Rationality is universal, anyone can understand me if I am rational. Even though absurdity is our common denominator. Except if you see me as rational is because I hide myself. I hide in a warm dark cave in silence. I don’t know how to be myself in the world. My flesh overpowers my existence. Monkeys inhabit my brain.

“I sang out the sadness of being born” wrote Alejandra Pizarnik. I see myself in her, always carrying a sense of existential tragedy. My first memory? the feeling of being trapped. My constant. Tiny monsters are drinking my blood, biting with their tiny teeth my flesh. The body is in flames. I am the traveler with no home, with no sense of place. A tree with no roots to the earth.

I could never be seduced by the spell. My ruby glasses were broken. My ruby glasses had the wrong prescription. I could not see the world tinted ruby, but astigmatism glimpses through the cracked glass. I was driven to art because I wanted to create a world inside the world. I wanted to play life, as one plays house. To imitate the intelligible to escape to the unintelligible. To play the game aching to break the spell. Art peels layers of tissue from my body, it is a painful sacrifice in which I choose to close the door to myself. Or better, open it in secret using allegories like music in a mute vibration. I don’t want you to look at me. I want you to see me. But I am happy if you see yourself and I am your mirror. I want the warmth and camaraderie of sharing. I want you to have a piece of me and then for you to disappear in it.

I vomit myself drunk in the nothingness. I want to expulse my body out of my body. I want to cease. I wanted to be a thinker, and thoughts consumed me. I thought thoughts would be appeased if they materialized in form. Somehow they are appeased; somehow they are border line reigning out of control. I dare to look at all the darkness and laugh. Art making is my sinister delirium of survival.

"IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD"

2012-01-07T01:04:00.000-08:00

"It's All In Your Head"

Reception: Wednesday, January 11, 6-8pm ExhibitionJanuary 7 - February 4, 2012

Westside Gallery

133/141 West 21 StreetNew York, NY 10011

The Westside Gallery is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and is closed on Sunday

Working on a Poupée for the "It's All in Your Head Show"

2012-01-07T00:53:00.000-08:00

Interview in Welcome To COMPANY

2011-11-29T15:38:00.000-08:00

I had a nice conversation with Rhoni from COMPANY, who (after they visited my open studio) interviewed me in a community garden for their discovery series. To read it click here: Welcome To Company

Also COMPANY's ArtV mobile gallery will be in Miami functioning as a shuttle to help collectors and the interested public navigate the fairs.

Weeping Bones of the Desert

2011-11-25T00:02:00.000-08:00

Aqua Miami 2011

2011-11-21T16:37:00.000-08:00

For those heading to Miami here are the details and location to see the work of the Visual Arts Gallery Booth

This print came out beautifully! Edition Available at COMPANY

2011-11-21T15:16:00.000-08:00

This print came out beautifully! It is an archival pigment print on Tyvek sold online at the COMPANY website for collectors of emerging art. Click here to buy it.

Uprising after the Femicide is a reproduction of a large-scale hand-painted

woodcut print. The central figure is an Insurgent-Woman-Spirit in a balaclava

mask with blood pouring down from her chest, rising from the ground where

her own bones lie on top of a dahlia surrounded by Aztec ruins. The piece was

created with the aim of raising awareness about the Juaréz femicides. However,

it holds many layers of content that relate to colonialism and neo-colonialism,

women’s emancipation, nature’s destruction, and exploring the complexity of

emotions that one suffers after being subjected to forms of oppression, violence

and abuse. Which in this case, leads to the uprising of the Magical –Insurgent-

Spirits that populate the Aztec territory and lead a mystical battle in which

they are victorious. This piece was formally influenced by religious paintings

from the 1400’s to 1500’s. Elements that caught my attention, particularly in

Christian paintings from that era, were their extremely bloody visual narrative and

symbolism. Tenebrist painting and Latino-American art from the colonial period

can also be counted as visual influences.

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Odeon Contemporary Art Fair in Bogotá

2011-10-28T21:26:00.000-07:00

This is an image of the El Garaje gallery booth at the Odeon Contemporary Art Fair in Bogotá, (which took place at the end of October). They showed my early photography work "Women That Live in the Collective Imagery".

(A series of portraits exploring the stereotypes that society has of women and that live in the collective imagery) (Una serie de retratos que exploran los estereotipos que la sociedad tiene de la mujer y que viven en la imagineria del colectivo)

Limited editions prints for purchase at COMPANY

2011-10-17T10:47:00.000-07:00

I have some exciting news! The wonderful people at COMPANY are now selling limited editions of two prints from my works Mamá Luz(originally collage) and Uprising After the Femicide(originally a painted woodcut print). They are the highest archival quality and look beautiful in person, the images online don't do them justice. The idea behind these series, was to do affordable editions for young art collectors and also to support emerging artists. COMPANY also functions as a space for art collectors to sale work from more established artists. Click here to buy prints

Elektra KB at the Aqua 11

2011-09-26T11:38:00.000-07:00

My work will be at the Visual Arts Gallery booth at the Aqua art fair 11 in Miami.

Embroidery works in progress

2011-09-20T15:53:00.000-07:00

These are digitized embroidery pieces on translucent fabrics that I am doing for a larger piece of the Theocratic Republic of Gaia.

Rising Spirit After the Femicide

2011-09-07T18:43:00.000-07:00

Detail

Large (almost human size) laser cut woodcut print hand painted with acrylic about the femicides in Ciudad Juaréz.

The Catalytic Noise Machine Confessional at Welcome to COMPANY

2011-08-19T08:20:00.000-07:00

Group show at COMPANY exhibition space in the Flatiron district -inauguration for art collectors - in which I did a site specific performance and video installation. Other rooms had the video work of artists Yorgo Alexopoluos and Federico Solmi.

Welcome To Company (click for full article)
By Jedediah Charles

COMPANY Launches The Collector Series
(July 28, 2011)
"The fourth artist exhibiting and performing at the COMPANY event was Elektra KB – a vegan-feminist-situationist of Ukranian-Colombian descent. Tucked away in a back room, she created an unsettling environment complete with a video and multi-track dialogue on repeat. The piece draws from The Theocratic Republic Of Gaia, which Elektra defines as an alternate way of perceiving the true world, in which the population gets brainwashed and forgets what reality is.
This work calls to attention the new "religion" of media and consumerism. In the room, Elektra assumed the character of The White Papess, ruler of Gaia. She lay still in bed with her eyes closed while guests entered the room to paid homage. I definitely felt like a cult member in the confines of that stark white room, especially with the uneasy soundtrack and slumbering painted papess. Definitely an artist to watch for in the future."

Social Realms Exhibition

2011-05-31T21:41:00.000-07:00

Insurgent Woman

2011-05-12T12:15:00.000-07:00

I'm Lovin It

2011-05-12T12:08:00.000-07:00

Come to my Open Studio! April 28th in New York!!!

2011-04-18T20:45:00.000-07:00

Dazed Live Festival

2011-04-07T15:50:00.000-07:00

The White Papess II

2011-04-06T20:55:00.000-07:00

Revenge of the Piece of Meat 05

2011-04-06T20:31:00.000-07:00

This Lugubrious Mania of Living

2011-02-19T18:49:00.000-08:00

Medical Memories in Insurgency

2011-02-18T22:59:00.000-08:00

White Papess as Ruler of the Aztec people

2011-01-23T18:24:00.000-08:00

Theocratic Army in Aztec Territory II

2011-01-23T18:16:00.000-08:00

Theocratic Army in Aztec Territory

2011-01-23T18:09:00.000-08:00

Papess in Catalytic Confessional

2011-01-23T17:51:00.000-08:00

Revenge of The Piece of Meat 04

2010-12-23T15:19:00.000-08:00

The Awakening

2010-12-15T18:48:00.000-08:00

The Awakening from elektra kb on Vimeo.
Words by poet Alejandra Pizarnik Music collaboration: Nicolas Ulloa

Revenge Of the Piece of Meat IV

2010-12-03T13:26:00.001-08:00

Confessional Catalytic Noise Machine

2010-12-01T20:54:00.000-08:00

Confessional Catalytic Noise Machine from elektra kb on Vimeo.

Music collaboration: Nicolas Ulloa
Photography assistant: Allyson Thompson

The Flowers Shrivel in My Hands

2010-12-01T20:00:00.000-08:00

Madame Lamort - Chains

2010-11-15T12:14:00.000-08:00

Madame Lamort - Chains by elektrakb

"I wanted to extend my arms to hug the world, because no one taught me it was too late"

2010-11-09T19:42:00.000-08:00

Detail

Detail 2

Detail 3

Pigment photographs printed on canvas, embroidered thread, acrylic, felt and gold leaf over fabric.

Revenge of The Piece of Meat III

2010-11-09T18:22:00.001-08:00

Untitled 15

2010-11-09T17:42:00.000-08:00

Revenge of The Piece of Meat

2010-10-19T18:38:00.001-07:00

"Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.
After the elimination of money there will be no further need to kill men; they will be stripped of the only power they have over psychologically independent females.
They will be able to impose themselves only to the doormats, who like to be imposed on. Women, in other words, don't have penis envy; men have pussy envy.
Eaten up with guilt, shame, fears and insecurities the male is, nonetheless, obsessed with screwing".
From Valerie Solanas' S.C.U.M Manifesto.

Exposición Galeria El Garaje, Miercoles 6 de Octubre

2010-09-20T15:43:00.000-07:00

My Exhibition in Arteria Magazine.
My exposición reseñada en la revista Arteria.

The Revenge of The Piece of Meat II

2010-08-01T11:40:00.000-07:00

Exhibition on June 7/2010

2010-06-06T20:10:00.000-07:00

Click here for details

Untitled 14

2010-04-09T21:04:00.000-07:00

Medium: Felt sewn over pigment print on canvas sewn over fabric, acrylic and watercolor. Size: 21 1/2" X 18 1/2"

Untitled 13

2010-04-09T20:56:00.000-07:00

Medium: Felt sewn over pigment print on canvas sewn over fabric. Size: 21 1/2" X 18 1/2"

Untitled 12

2010-04-09T20:43:00.000-07:00

Medium: Felt sewn over pigment print on canvas sewn over fabric. Size: 21 1/2" X 18 1/2"

Untitled 11

2010-04-09T20:40:00.000-07:00

In progress. Medium: Felt sewn over pigment print on canvas sewn over fabric. Size: 21 1/2" X 18 1/2"

Untitled 10

2010-04-09T20:26:00.000-07:00

I have been working the past few months on these series of felt and photos on fabric. Medium: Felt sewn over pigment print on canvas sewn over fabric. Size: 21 1/2" X 18 1/2"

The Awakening by Pizarnik

2010-04-09T20:18:00.001-07:00

Pigment print on archival paper, color pencil, acrylic on paper and foil mounted on Plexiglas. This image hangs transparent, as if it floating in the wall, it has been photographed over a white background here.

Images for Fanzine

2010-04-08T19:55:00.001-07:00

A photomontage for a fanzine I am working on.

My Exhibition at Local Project

2010-03-01T21:46:00.000-08:00

Local Project will be part of the Armory Arts Week 2010
presenting an audiovisual installation by Bang Geul Han (Presented by Fluid Media lab)
and a collection of artwork by anarchist situationist artist Elektra KB.
Friday March 5th to Sunday March 7th.
Opening Reception: Friday March 5th, 6:00pm to 10:00pm, music by Takiy Yana and Dj set by Velvet.

Local Project

45-10 Davis St.

Long Island City, New York 11101

www.localproject.org

info@localproject.org

F*BOOK EVENT: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=332333758109

Local Project is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to building a forum for artists, creating synergy between their art work and the public. LP supports all forms of self-expression by providing an open space for artists without concern to their genre, medium, or provenance.

Revenge Of The Piece Of Meat

2010-02-20T18:30:00.000-08:00

Detail

This is a very exciting moment for me, here it is, my first painting! :-)

2010-02-05T21:45:00.000-08:00

The Theocratic Republic Of Gaia; Head

2010-01-28T22:16:00.000-08:00

Pigment print on archival paper.

The Weeping

2009-12-24T17:54:00.001-08:00

Asphyxia

2009-12-20T19:28:00.002-08:00

Finally!
Silkscreen over photographic pigment print

17"x22"
Edition of 10 prints and 1 artist's proof.
For sales email: kb.elektra(at)gmail.com

2009-12-20T19:28:00.001-08:00

Madame Lamort

2009-12-20T19:00:00.001-08:00

Preview Still From New Short Film
Inspired by Pizarnik's Dialogues.

The Revenge Of The Piece Of Meat 02

2009-12-20T18:54:00.000-08:00

Llanto; The Weeping is an Immense Dog Video

2009-11-21T22:37:00.000-08:00

Inspired in Federico Garcia Lorca's Casida Del Llanto. Please wait a little bit for the video to load completely.

Click to play

The Revenge Of the Piece Of Meat 0

2009-11-12T14:16:00.001-08:00

The Revenge Of the Piece Of Meat 1

2009-11-12T13:18:00.000-08:00

Work in Progress

2009-11-10T19:09:00.000-08:00

Exhibition Catalog

2009-11-04T08:23:00.000-08:00

I am excited! This is the catalog of the exhibition in the MFA Art Criticism and Writing library at the School Of Visual Arts in New York, curated by Jeff Edwards. It is available for purchase at LULU

Mamá Luz

2009-10-17T13:46:00.001-07:00

Untitled 9

2009-10-17T10:05:00.000-07:00

Outpost Group Show

2009-10-13T20:24:00.000-07:00

Several pieces of my work will be featured in this exhibition. I have put my heart, bones and neuropathies, in to these pieces. The concept is to barter works of art and break from the mold of the way traditional galleries operate, I like the concept of transcending capitalism and placing a value beyond the monetary and the bourgeois dominated art scene. The exhibition has been reviewed in Juxtapoz and the Space looks like a kitschy wunderkammer, not your typical gallery setting.

Exhibition at the MFA Art Criticism Library

2009-10-01T11:58:00.000-07:00

Apocalipsis

2009-09-13T20:18:00.000-07:00

The Theocratic Republic Of Gaia
Apocalipsis

Untitled

2009-07-31T16:37:00.001-07:00

This work is a collage done over a vintage typewriting manual, which evokes the destruction and horror of warfare and its absurdity as a megalomaniac compulsion of gluttony in humankind. Dairy and flowers represent women, as the mother is the producer of milk; patriarchal society uses derogatory terms such as "women are as delicate as a flower", the flower is the conductive thread in these series. "Pretty" elements are juxtaposed with raw images of struggle. I used Colombian magazines from the 50's 60's and 70's that I collected in a flea market in Bogotá this summer while visiting; to re write its stories and re interpret its images, as well as few U.S magazines, where I found naked women and ads selling TVs. These worked perfectly as natural contrasts of the bourgeousie dreams and the reality for the majority of the world. I spent over a week doing each one, as I placed the cut outs and re studied them over and over to find the best composition visually and conceptually incorporating the typographic elements organically but choosing carefully which pages of the typewriting manual graphically suited best each image.

Women That Live In the Collective Imagery

2009-06-29T10:51:00.000-07:00

La Papisa

2009-05-02T20:37:00.000-07:00

Windows

2009-05-02T20:17:00.000-07:00

THE TUNING FORK by: Edward Gorey

2009-04-21T22:07:00.000-07:00

Eternal Treblinka

2009-03-14T18:23:00.000-07:00

Unhappy Meal

2009-02-14T10:44:00.000-08:00

Self Destruction Disgust Horror Violence Consumerism Barbarity

CIACCO (From Dante's Inferno)

2009-02-09T17:19:00.001-08:00

Untitled

2009-01-20T11:51:00.000-08:00

Woman

Religion

Identity Loss

Brainwashing

Stigma

Trapped

Multiplication

Disasters Of Humanity

2009-01-18T15:07:00.001-08:00

Unhappy Meal (Detail) Self Destruction Disgust Horror Violence Consumerism Barbarity

The Value Of Tradition

2008-12-09T20:52:00.000-08:00

La Religiosa/ The Religious Woman

Part of the Female Stereotype series.

The Big Farce wheel

2008-11-24T16:09:00.000-08:00

La Virgen/ The Virgin

2008-11-24T16:03:00.000-08:00

Part of the Female Stereotypes series.

The Big Farce

2008-11-24T15:51:00.000-08:00

The Real Terror/ El Verdadero Terror

2008-11-24T15:41:00.000-08:00

This photograph was done to denounce the illegal executions that Colombian campesinos are suffering today, and have been for years.

Species

2008-11-20T15:58:00.000-08:00

Women That Live In The Collective Imagery

2008-10-14T17:15:00.000-07:00

FEMALE STEREOTYPES (A series of portraits exploring the stereotypes that society has of women and that live in the collective imagery) (Una serie de retratos que exploran los estereotipos que la sociedad tiene de la mujer y que viven en la imagineria del colectivo) Dyke

2008-06-23T12:14:00.000-07:00

CAMPESINA GUERRILLA

SECRETARY HEROIN PIECE OF MEAT LOLITA HOUSEWIFE I wanted each picture to be completely different, and set in different time frames, like lost pictures of an album; memories of different women, with an unknown time-space or geographical existence left to the arbitrary imagination of the viewer, yet facing a contemporary struggle.

Made of Steel

2008-05-08T17:21:00.000-07:00

Made Of Steel

2008-03-26T12:09:00.001-07:00

To Loose One's Head (Original Photography)