Elena Landinez is a visual artist, curator, and researcher whose practice unfolds through drawing, writing, painting, collage, digital media and ceramic, as well as through the creation of collective spaces of encounter, learning, and transformation. Through the power of images, she weaves and stitches artistic communities, cultivating shared processes of creation, reflection, and care. Her work interlaces artistic creation with curatorial processes, community-based practices, and situated research, exploring the relationships between time and memory, human and more-than-human worlds, and the political poetics of imagination.
Moved by water, dreams, and embodied ways of knowing, Elena approaches art as a living ecology of care, deep listening, and shared becoming. Since 2008, she has woven artistic communities, residency processes, and transdisciplinary projects across America and Europe, cultivating long-term practices of collective creation, research, and the gentle transmission of knowledge.
Currently, she is the MOTH's Art Fellow at the NYU Center for Human Rights. As part of her fellowship, Elena has developed the image and art design for MOTH.
Originally from Barranquilla, Colombia, Elena lives in Salvador, Brazil.
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Artist Statement
My artistic practice grows from an intimate listening to the invisible threads that connect human and more-than-human worlds. Through multiple languages and forms of expression, and through the creation of collective spaces of encounter, I explore art as a living field of care, attention, and shared transformation.
I approach art not as an object, but as a process — a slow ecology of relationships unfolding through collaboration, community-based practices, and situated research. Since 2008, I have initiated and accompanied artistic communities, residency processes, and transdisciplinary projects across America and Europe, cultivating long-term spaces of learning, creation, and collective imagination.
Guided by water, dreams, and embodied ways of knowing, my work invites listening with the senses. Creation becomes a practice of deep attention to the world, where artistic gestures act as tools for reweaving connections between territories, memories, bodies, and possible futures.
My curatorial work extends this vision, creating frameworks where artists, communities, and institutions meet through processes of mutual care and knowledge exchange. Through exhibitions, publications, workshops, and long-duration projects, I seek to open spaces for new narratives to emerge — narratives that challenge dominant forms of knowledge and imagine more just and regenerative ways of inhabiting the world.
Ultimately, my practice is an invitation: to slow down, to listen differently, and to imagine together other ways of being, creating, and belonging.