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.”
Painting
The Unfixed
A layered blue field structured through horizontal movement and repeated pigment.
The surface unfolds without a fixed center, holding space in a state of quiet instability and continuous suspension.
2025
Painting
The Unfixed is a painting project exploring the loss of a stable center, the experience of psychological space without grounding, and the instability of form under continuous motion.
Through abstract water-like fields and drifting forms, the series captures internal shifts rather than events — reflecting a condition in which stability is not given, but constantly reassembled.
2025
Painting
Grain of Space is a painting project exploring perception at the threshold where spatial logic begins to lose coherence.
The work consists of one large-scale canvas and four modular paintings that function as fragmented states of a single visual field. Through intensified rhythm, disrupted perspective, and tactile painterly “pixels,” the project produces instability rather than representation — transforming space into a process of disorientation, tension, and continual reassembly.
2025
Painting
Solar Residue is a diptych examining how modernist architecture becomes a remnant under the pressure of light and time.
Through layered acrylic, sand texture, and scraped palette-knife gestures, geometry erodes into a tactile surface. The work presents not a building, but its afterglow — a residue of constructed order preserved in material memory.
2025
Painting
This diptych reflects on the fragile boundary between memory and disappearance.
Through vertical traces and falling forms, the two canvases explore presence, loss, and collective remembrance. Built with sand, burnt sienna, and black, the works approach trauma through material restraint and tactile gesture rather than depiction.
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 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
Works on Paper
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
