Elena Kalkova
ON VIEW: 
FUTURE IS HANDMADE
20 FEBRUARY 2026 -15 FEBRUARY 2027
REGINA  A. QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS, CT

Sculpture /Installations
Film Collaborations
Texts and Artist Books
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Resources to support Ukraine
Resources to support political prisoners

About Elena Kalkova is an artistic researcher and educator. In her socially engaged practice, through sculptural experimentation, writing, and film collaborations, she explores weaponisations of memorylessness, state propaganda, alternatives to oppressive monumentality, resistance and care, and complex relationships with the home, especially when the home is a dictatorship. Kalkova seeks to connect personal and collective experiences, prioritizing coming together for the collective repair of fractured social ties and fostering horizontal connections.
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2022-ongoing
Scream Quietly
mixed media on cast concrete

This is an ongoing project exploring the dichotomy between public and private, individual and collective, imposed and chosen, loud and silent. Starting from the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kalkova has been collecting anti-war street statements from various cities in Russia, placing them on cast concrete, acknowledging the voices of those who do not agree with the fascist regime.