Elena Gorn works in painting and spatial installation, exploring instability of perception and the experience of shifting ground. Her practice investigates the loss of a fixed center, where form, color, and space function as psychological conditions rather than representations. “I approach painting as a field of lived experience,” she notes, “where structure and dissolution coexist, and meaning emerges through tension and duration.”
Grain of Space is a completed painting project examining perception at the moment it begins to lose certainty. The work approaches space not as a stable structure, but as a fragile system composed of shifting fragments, where orientation exists only temporarily and continuously dissolves.
2025-2026
Painting
A completed painting project examining the loss of a stable center and psychological disorientation, where instability of form reflects lived experience and the process of reassembling identity within shifting, uncertain conditions.
2025
Painting
A completed painting project exploring modernist architecture as a carrier of memory, where geometric order dissolves under light, heat, and time, leaving behind a textured residue of lived experience and eroded ideals.
2025
Painting
A completed diptych reflecting on landscape as a carrier of memory, where traces of presence, absence, and time surface through restrained composition, material sensitivity, and subtle shifts between form and erosion.
2025
Painting
A completed diptych reflecting on landscape as a carrier of memory, where traces of presence, absence, and time surface through restrained composition, material sensitivity, and subtle shifts between form and erosion.
2025
Painting
An ongoing painting project approaching the city as a state rather than a place, capturing Tel Aviv through rhythm, light, and spatial gestures that form a recognizable visual code embedded in collective urban memory.
2025
Painting
A completed painting exploring the phenomenon of revived modernism in Israel, where Bauhaus architecture, preserved and renewed, reappears as a living structure shaped by light, climate, and contemporary memory.
2025-
Painting
An ongoing painting project focused on suspended time and anticipation, exploring states of pause, uncertainty, and quiet tension, where meaning emerges not through action, but through duration and restrained presence.
2025-
Painting
A completed painting project addressing anonymity and temporal dislocation, where erased figures and suspended moments reflect the instability of identity and the absence of fixed narrative or chronology.
2025
Painting
A completed painting project addressing anonymity and temporal dislocation, where erased figures and suspended moments reflect the instability of identity and the absence of fixed narrative or chronology.
2025
Painting
A completed painting project centered on stillness and attention, exploring the act of listening as a quiet psychological state shaped by silence, restraint, and the subtle presence of internal movement.
2025
Painting
A completed ten-panel painting series mapping aliyah as an inner landscape rather than a finished arrival, tracing a process shaped by memory, displacement, uncertainty, and the tension between imagined futures and lived reality.
2025
Painting
An artist book exploring color as an autonomous language, where three selected hues structure perception, rhythm, and emotional tension, forming a visual sequence that moves between abstraction, memory, and painterly thinking.
2025
Sketching
A compact artist book distilling the core ideas of the 3 Colors project into an intimate format, where reduced scale sharpens focus on color relationships, pacing, and the tactile experience of visual continuity.
2024
Sketching
