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. Her own body acts as a specimen of the human experience and a conduit : channeling collective flesh-memory.
Images collide and divide according to the situation using the method of mitate. Text, video, drawings and haikus —which act as written photogaphs, are incorporated.
She graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp with highest distinction with an MA in Visual Arts (Photography dpt.) and from the Technological Educational Institute of Athens with a BA in Graphic Arts Technology. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Fotomuseum Winterthur, Noorderlicht Festival, Fotomuseum Antwerp, KM Künstlerhaus, K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Metronom Gallery, Marres, the Athens Photo Festival, MOMus a.o., and has been nominated for various awards such as the ING Unseen Talent Award, Bird in Flight prize and Prix Virginia.