Artist Statement

My practice inhabits the thresholds between performance, installation, and sound—spaces where listening becomes a form of care and the body a site of resistance. Working at the intersection of feminist ecologies and decolonial thought, I engage with more-than-human worlds not as metaphor but as methodology. Through voice extended beyond its limits, field recordings, and immersive environments, I activate speculative ecologies that challenge anthropocentric hierarchies. I create sensory spaces where visitors are invited to pause, to feel the weight of disappearing worlds, and to imagine coexistence otherwise. My work is not about representation; it is about presence, reciprocity, and the urgent need to reimagine our place within the fragile web of life—where ancestral wisdom and contemporary urgency converge into new forms of collective becoming.



Bio

Elena Victoria Pastor (b. 1982, Caracas) is a Venezuelan interdisciplinary artist based in Hamburg. Her practice operates across performance, video, installation, and sound—not as separate disciplines, but as interconnected mediums that generate layered, multisensory discourses. She interweaves these languages to produce works where the visual, the sonic, and the corporeal converge into immersive experiences that engage the spectator on multiple perceptual levels simultaneously. Her approach deliberately stages encounters between seemingly opposing forces—ancestral and contemporary, organic and synthetic, local and global—not to resolve their tensions, but to activate them as generative spaces for speculation. From these friction points, she constructs discursive bridges that invite us to imagine possible futures where coexistence is rethought beyond extractive and hierarchical models. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Kunsthalle Trier, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Museum of Modern Art Jesús Soto, PSi28 Johannesburg, National Gallery of Arts Caracas, Casa de América Madrid, Sammlung Falckenberg (Deichtorhallen Hamburg), FABRIKculture during ArtBasel 2024, ICPNA Peru, and Casa Franca Rio de Janeiro.

image: Jewgeni Roppel