Elis Saareväli

Elis Saareväli (b. 1980) is an artist based in Haapsalu, Estonia. She studied painting at the Estonian Academy of Arts, acquiring BA in 2005.

Saareväli is working with painting and mixed media, experimenting with the aesthetics and limits of painting. Her work is often inspired and uses a variety of found objects. Most of her paintings are monochromatic – the process of clearing the images and the search of documentary aesthetics has been important part of her artistic process. Her first personal exhibition was about the effects of antidepressants, from where Saareväli has developed a wider interest in examining mental exhaustion, memories, dreams and their relation to objects. She explores the environment in which life-management difficulties happen, and how people relate to and create the world around them.

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“I am intrigued by the subject of human nature and mental exhaustion. I’m investigating the environment where the people who are facing life-management difficulties live. I’m not interested in social critics of society. I’m searching aesthetics in these environments, the concepts of beauty and ugliness and their interrelation, the ways people are functioning in the society. My latest works are monochromatic. I have cleared the images in the experiments dealing with documentary aesthetics inside the aesthetics of painting.”

Source: elissaarevali.com