3: Statement/English

Eken works in a variety of media focusing on video installation, drawing, painting, embroidery and sculpture. Her work addresses the nature of particular interior spaces and the aura, fragility and physical detritus surrounding a concert or a performance is a major source of inspiration. Drawing on the melancholy and romance of popular music I aim to unpick the processes through which certain places or pop-cultural objects have become embedded within the collective consciousness. The open appropriation of familiar imagery, whether of Elvis’ grave or a period interior, acknowledges the inevitable disparity between one’s memory and the physical reality of a given object, place or event but most importantly, the notion of authenticity as a corruptible.