ELIAS VOREN

Full Name: Elias Matthew Voren
Born: 1986, Turku, Finland
Current Base: Berlin, Germany

Education:

BA in Fine Arts, Aalto University, Helsinki (2008)

MFA in Contemporary Photography and New Media, Universität der Künste, Berlin (2012)

Specialisation:
Elias Voren is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans experimental photography, sound installation, and glitch aesthetics. His work interrogates the instability of human perception through the manipulation of analogue and digital image-making processes. Using long exposures, lens distortions, and sound-reactive visual systems, he seeks to reveal the fracture points where memory, technology, and embodiment collapse into abstraction.

Exhibitions & Residencies:

Unstable Horizons, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017)

Artist-in-residence at Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan (2019)

Spectral Body Archive, Tate Modern’s Tanks, London (2022)

Critical Themes:

The psychology of blurred identities in the digital era

Collapse of portraiture under speed, surveillance, and spectral distortion

“The human face as data — corrupted, duplicated, ghosted.”

Current Work:
Voren is currently working on a research-based project titled Residual Flesh, exploring the intersection of AI, memory erasure, and archival portraiture.

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