Title: 21 Breaths

Year: 2024

Media: pencil on paper

Size: 29.7 x 21 cm

About the work: About the work: Take a normal breath in through your nose and breath out through your mouth for as long as is comfortable. As you breath out imagine that you are blowing out a golden thread which is spinning away from you for the duration of the exhale.

Bio: Yelena Popova (b. 1978, Urals, USSR) is an artist living and working in Nottingham. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London (RCA, MA in Painting, 2009- 2011) and the Moscow Art Theatre School (MHAT, Set Design and Construction, 1995-2000). Select solo exhibitions include: Made Ground, Cample Line (Scotland, 2022),  The Scholar Stones Project, Holden Gallery, MMU (Manchester 2020),  Her Name is Prometheus, L’etrangère, (London, 2018),  After Image, Nottingham Contemporary (2016).

Recent group exhibitions include: Matter as Actor, curated by Greg Hilty, Lisson Gallery (London, 2023), Slow Painting, curated by Martin Herbert for Hayward Touring (2019), Perpetual Uncertainty, curated by Ele Carpenter at Malmö Konstmuseum (Malmö, 2017), Future Light curated by Maria Lind for Vienna Biennale (Vienna, 2015). Collections include: Arts Council Collection, Government Art Collection, The Women’s Art Collection, Nottingham Castle collection, RCA Collection, Saatchi Collection, Zabludowicz Collection, and LWL Museum, Münster.