Ela Skorska
About
Ela Skorska is a multidisciplinary visual artist working predominantly with analogue photography, Super 8, sculpture, and painting. A graduate of BA Photography at Manchester School of Art, her work is a meditative exploration of her surroundings, focusing on the overlooked beauty, abstraction, and geometrical shapes that emerge through collaboration with chance.
Working Title: Abstract Reality (2022 - ongoing)
In my project, Abstract Reality, I place myself in the position of an aesthetic detective. In a flâneur fashion, I explore the urban environment in pursuit of fleeting moments and abstract compositions created momentarily by the interplay of light and shadow.
Engaging with the world and celebrating wabi-sabi, I operate on the verge of reality, using light and design to create unaltered photographs, patiently observing and noticing the abstract within the world.
Working Title: Congruence (2023 - ongoing)
In my ongoing project, Congruence, I have been exploring the existence of my analogue photography in the modern world. Contemplating the longevity of my images being ‘stuck’ within the constraints of the frame and the sculptural properties of my brutalist-inspired images, I analyse a photograph as a 3D object and its potential to exist as such. I proceed to liberate it through interdisciplinary methods like painting, sculpture, 3D modelling and printing, and concrete.
Through creating interactive sculptures, I attempt to break the learned behaviour of not physically interacting with artworks, to reach the audience who can’t experience art in the usual ways and allow the viewer not just to be an observer but to be an active contributor.
Working Title: Confluence (2025 - ongoing)
In my newest project, Confluence, I am exploring UK rivers, focusing on the points of confluence between two or more rivers and how their flow and behaviour are restricted and altered by human intervention through the use of architecture/built environments.
Focused on the exact points where massive concrete/stone structures meet the river, I analyse how human activities affect the natural flow and behaviours of rivers. That point of touch, the obstruction that created a new relationship between the rivers and humans and how this relationship affected both sides, is a central point of my project.
