Elsa Salonen

Still Life with Flowers (from Pink to Red)

a decoloured flower bouquet and its distilled colour pigments, isomalt, glass, metal, cement
2022–2023, 150x150x30 cm

The artist extracted colours from the different flowers of a bouquet (chinese delphiniums, alpine delphiniums, eucalyptus, safflowers, and roses), leaving the plants pale and colourless. The distilled colour pigments were then conserved in transparent isomalt and displayed in laboratory glass vessels alongside the white bouquet.

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Installation views: for ARCOmadrid with Galerie Jochen Hempel, 2023 / Photographer: Joe Clark