Elena Aya Bundurakis (GR/JP) is an artist born in Crete island. Using her camera as a sensory prosthesis of the body, rather than a technological tool, she explores what it means to exist as a living organism in what she calls the technosoil era. Drawing on the Japanese method of mitate, her practice spans photography, text, video, drawing, and haiku, where her own body becomes both specimen and conduit, channeling collective flesh memory.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Fotomuseum Winterthur, Noorderlicht Festival, Fotomuseum Antwerp, K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Metronom Gallery, Marres, the Athens Photo Festival a.o., and has been nominated for awards such as the ING Unseen Talent Award, Bird in Flight prize and Prix Virginia.