A Game of Senses
Artist Name
Aelita Kore
Artist Statement
Born in Moscow in 1985 and based in London since 2023, Aelita Kore is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and writer. She has been writing poetry since the early 2000s. For many years, she edited an online magazine devoted to contemporary art and culture, collaborating with numerous authors and artists and organising events for its community.
Aelita Kore has always been fascinated by scientific thought and came to realise that art and poetry can also be forms of knowledge, while mystical experiences can be understood as another way of knowing the world. Over the years, she has explored various religious traditions, pagan mythology, and occultism. By studying different fields of knowledge and comparing diverse cognitive practices, the artist developed a visual art technique that enables her to explore what can be perceived as a kind of universal symbolic language. She mainly works with paper collage, in which the colours of the paper constitute a symbolic alphabet that allows for the ephemeral materialisation of spiritual experiences.
Exhibition Statement
Aelita Kore’s works examine the relationship between symbols, perception, and spiritual experience, as well as the human tendency to create meaning and the ways in which symbols shape our understanding of reality. Her paper collages are part of a practice that explores alternative worldviews and illustrates the creative capacity of the human mind.
The artist is interested in pushing the boundaries of the conventional use of signs and symbols associated with commonly held beliefs. It is also important to recognise that the criteria defining what is considered scientific and what is not are often quite rigid. Nevertheless, human cognitive experience is highly plastic and is not always objective or positivist. Art is a playful practice and an experiment, unfolding in a constant search for truth, freedom, and ways of loving nature and other people.
A Game of Senses invites viewers to engage with diverse cultural systems of symbols and to use them to expand their perception rather than treating them as incompatible. We can enrich our perspectives by drawing on symbols from different cultures and adopting a more flexible approach to understanding them in greater depth. This could offer a pathway towards a better understanding of one another and, ultimately, towards a more peaceful and healthier world.
