Elena Helfrecht

Eyes on Talents member, Elena Helfrecht's first photo book, Plexus, has been published by Void. Following the death of her grandmother, the artist embarked on a photographic journey through her family’s estate in Bavaria. Employing the interiors, objects and archives, she began to explore the ideas of inherited trauma and postmemory. "In the process of reconnecting the fragmentary history of my female lineage, the term ‘re-membering’ becomes literal. Immersing myself into this story, I fill the gaps with dreams, associations and imagined scenes to create a narrative transgressing personal and national boundaries. The objects and architecture of the house become parabolic proxies and open a gate between the past and the present." explains Elena Helfrecht.
Born in Bavaria in 1992, Elena Helfrecht is a German visual artist known for her dreamlike and surreal photographic works. Her practice mainly revolves around phenomena of consciousness, combining individual experiences with collective history.