Elena Kovylina. Time for sleeping  Vahtangov's theatre 01.04.2000

Elena Kovylina. Forgotten things. Moscow 01.03.2000

  

Elena Kovylina. Green Apples. Arsakan village, Armenia 20.07.1999



In the spring of 1999 I was invited to Erevan, the capital of Armenia, to take part in one exhibition.
After having acquainted with neighbourhoods and enviroments I was most surprised at the women’s lifestyle. Women who live in armenian villages never sit down at the table together with men, never with the guests, they only serve everybody and spend their time in a kitchen.
We visited several houses of popular armenian people and everywhere I saw the same.

Zwerev’s center of contemporary art, Moscow 01.01.1999 within the exhibition “Saljut attrakcion”, curated by K. Zvezdochetov



I’m applying myself to the problem of choosing within the life of a woman-artist.
On this matter there’s a lot of feminist literature, for a while it has become an imporant problem of my own life.
I’m standing on a stool with a loop around my neck. On my breast I have a sign with instructions for the audience: you can see on it a leg kicking my stool.
The duration of this performance is two hours.

Elena Kovylina. Proektion. Gallery "New Kollegion" Sankt-Petersburg 04.11.1998

Moscow, 01.05.1998