Saturday 21 February, 11:30am, free event BOOK PLACE
duration: 7 minutes approximately
Join ‘Landscape – A Changed Environment’ artist Elena Shkvarkina for the performance piece Windmill. Elena spins an aluminium flute structure through the air, generating whispering sounds. This bodily ritual acts as an instrument for synthesising and renewing incoming energies, opening pathways of communication with ancestral memory and the land.
Elena Shkvarkina (b. 1988) is a Russian-British multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. Her practice situates painting at the centre of embodied experimentation, incorporating sound, sculpture, performance, and film. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2025). Selected recent exhibitions and performances include Side Sweep (The Gramophone Works, 2025), Still Flows (RuptureXIBIT, 2025), and Calling in the Last Light (Turf Projects, MHA The Wilderness, 2025).
Elena has co-curated and exhibited in collaborative projects, including The Brink (Ugly Duck, 2023) and Ancestral Utopias (Royal College of Art, 2025). The latter became SustainLab Society’s largest interdisciplinary exhibition to date, during which she served as co-director. Alongside her exhibition practice, she organises workshops, talks, and practice exchange events that champion sustainability and cross-disciplinary dialogue. Her performances, Windmill and Litany for Ancestral Healing, explore the concept of painting with sound, incorporating ritual and movement as pathways for healing collective ancestral memory and reconnecting with the land.
