I AM THE ELEPHANT // SUPERMARKET ART FAIR // STOCKHOLM 2021

I AM THE ELEPHANT

performance by Josef Ka

photography Michael Hamory

Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm 2021

big thanks to Laura Tynan Marco Tagliolini Mark Maher Иван Дубяга Johannes Brahms

special thanks to Frame Contemporary Art Finland for supporting the project

I am the Elephant by Josef Ka (FI/RU)

One morning Josef Ka woke from troubled dreams to find herself transformed, in her bed, into a beautiful elephant. ‘All my life I was dreaming about my own elephant. Since I was born in Siberia it was just a beautiful dream, so I decided to transform myself into my own elephant. Josef Ka makes this metamorphosis by destroying a number of large toy elephants while onstage. The project is about letting dreams come true – ‘and the price other creatures sometimes must pay for this.’Duration: 40 min .

Location: Talks & Performance Stage

Supermarket – Stockholm Independent Art Fair

Published by Josef Ka

Josef Ka is a Russian artist who focuses mainly on site-specific visual arts and performance art. She has a deep and continuing relationship with a wide range of dance forms and traditions – from classical ballet to butoh and flamenco – and often gets her inspiration from her own personal history and experiences, in combination with a direct engagement with the here and now of life as she lives it. Three often-recurring themes in her work are Happiness, Time and Memory.

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