On the Form of the Teeth Through the Wheels

2025

Installation | Steel, silk reeling machine, patina, glass marble, lens, handwoven jacquard and floor loom geological map of southwestern Siberia, balsam pine scent, aluminum laime (divination water casting), water residue, theater prop film reel of L. Rezevska’s stone woman sculpture Domātāja, chromatography plates, fragmented PLA bear pelvis, helium dilution refrigerator components for quantum computing, plant matter, hipparchia semele (greyling) rorschach

Documentation: Oresti Tsonopoulos, Pat Garcia, and artist

*Viewers are invited to crouch down onto the floor level to look through the lens which magnifies the glass marble and flips the room upside down

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Surface Tension

2024

Installation | Steel, water, mirrors, light, organic matter, dust, hybridization tubes, cast iron knit sample, welding curtain, percussion tools, surgical suture thread, resin, wax, x-ray, vibration, souped C-41 35mm film printed on acetate

Documentation: Pat Garcia and artist

* Viewers are invited to use the drum mallet to strike the hanging chimes and move the water with the pins to create a new projection

Surface Tension, 2024

Blind Trust

2025

Installation | Steel, aircraft cable, stainless steel wire, flagging tape, pine construction lumber, clay leech whistles

*Clay whistles in the form of leeches are on the steel blinds, creating a sound as the wind direction changes

***ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION COMING SOON**

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Songbird's Syrinx (The ear perceives but cannot transmit)

2024

Installation | Steel, concrete, burnt wood, aluminum cast flax, envelope, activated carbon, c-print, tinted cyanotype bioplastic, cast heron's skull, granite, acrylic, fossilized pine resin, trīdeksnis, bells, sand

*Viewers are invited to walk on the sand or view the work from the periphery

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Touch Holds the Future's Afterimage

2023

Sculpture | Steel, cast iron shuttle, sand, brass, handwoven jacquard cotton, stainless steel wire, paper, monofilament nylon, viscose

3’ x 3’4” x 4’

Documentation: Meghan Olsen

Speaking Through Flowers

2025

Installation | Steel, glass, four channel sound, video collage, live voice

15 minutes

*Modular and iterative, this work will be reconfigured and reimagined in various sites alongside live voice activation and video collage projection

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This project’s first iteration was supported by the Yale Centre for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) Studio Fellowship

Documentation: Chen Xiangyun and Maggie Schnyer

Sound arranged, mixed & mastered by Michael Holland, NTS Radio

Consultations with CCAM team, Yale Slavic Choir, Yale Guild of Carillonneurs, Zile Liepins (video), Baltic Studies Working Group

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Decorative Elements (декоративные элементы)

2022

Sculpture | Aluminum, c-print, brass plate, handwoven jacquard textile, cotton, nylon, industrial sewing thread

4’ x 4’ x 2’

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Dūmukli

2022

Installation | Oak and eucalyptus sauna brooms, mechanic’s wire, grey peas, linden flower, dill clay fossils, sandcastle, cedar shingles, steel, hydrocal, c-print, beeswax candles

6’ x 6’ x 6’

Documentation: May Shi

Sakte

2024

Rubber, steel, hardware

2.5’ x 2.5’ x 2’

Where the Two Seas Meet (Kūolka)

2022

Sculpture | Lead water casting, honey, birch bark, Baltic Sea water, oak bark tea, souped C41 35mm film roll, concrete column, steel, handwoven jacquard textile woven with cotton, nylon, wool, stainless steel coated thread, bleach

7’ x 5’ x 4’

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A Sharp Tongue Cuts Harder Than A Knife (Samizdat)

2019

Sculpture | Stainless steel thread, cotton stage cord, leather string, aluminum

104” x 32” x 18”

Photo courtesy of May Shi

What Will Have Been

2017

Installation | Handwoven jacquard textile installation with cotton, monofilament nylon, mylar, graphite, aluminum

7.5' x 6.5' x 8'

Tools To Hold Traces

2016

Sculpture | Handwoven monofilament nylon, C-prints

Documentation: Lonsdale Gallery

Two person exhibition Anouk Desloges and Helen Liene Dreifelds

Outside the Lines | November 23 - December 22, 2016

Exhibition documentation courtesy of Lonsdale Gallery

Écoulement (view 1), 2016

C-print, edition of 3, 22" x 15"

Collaborative Projects

Entre le chien et le loup

2024

Installation | Projection, sound, steel, drop cloth, thread in collaboration with Wiktor Freifeld

3 mins

*Project developed through partnership between Yale School of Drama - Lighting Projection and Yale School of Art - Sculpture, presented at the Schwarzman Center

Soft Walls

2019

Video and performance | 3 mins 18 seconds.

Through the performance of Soft Walls, denirée isabel, Helen Liene Dreifelds and Emma Aurelia explore the idea of extended technique in weaving.

In thoughtful defiance of tradition, they strive to stretch their relationship with material, process and one another. They ask: what can we achieve when we work collectively and unconventionally?

In what ways can we reimagine structures of support, tension and extension? Ultimately, how can we deepen the connection to ourselves, machines and to one another?

Music by Blutonic Choir (Emma Aurelia & Miles Breithaupt)

Video by Yu Zheng

Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council for their support in making this project.

Space Between You and I (Qualia)

2016

Installation | Handwoven monofilament nylon, 5' x 4' x 3.5'.

Early Works

2014 - 2019

Variation, 2016

Handwoven shadow weave. 60" x 90" x 0.5".

What We Breathe In, 2018

Participatory installation | Handwoven monofilament nylon and polyester thread towels, silicone bathtub caulking, ice machine tubing with spray misters, modified gas pumps, drop ceiling hanger wire, screen printed posters, and cast rubble with hydrocal and soap, 8’ x 6 ’x 4’.

Phase Change (Resist), 2018

Site Specific Installation | C-print of durational handwoven blanket performance, monofilament nylon, metal wire, wool, cotton, liquid rubber, polyester thread, jelly cord

Phase Change (Reveal), 2018,

Site Specific Installation | C-print of durational object performance of handwoven blanket, resist dyed monofilament nylon, metal wire, silicone, polyester thread, 60” x 45”.

Now That You're Here, 2017

Handwoven digital jacquard cloth with cotton, viscose, stainless steel wire, slide projector, glass slide, sand, and reflective glass powder. 3’ x 3.5’ x 4.5’.

Through Me, See You, 2017

Sculpture | Handwoven monofilament nylon, spray paint, pulleys, stage cord, monoprint plywood stage, loom harnesses.

La durée, 2017

Installation | Handwoven monofilament nylon, polyester, cotton, cassette tape, liquid rubber, spray paint, jelly cord, wire, 43" x 35" x 17".

Vainags Tevi Apedis (The Wreath Will Eat You), 2019

Sculpture | Found curtain, mirrored acrylic, plaster cast of a sponge, cantaloupe, bandaid, sand, steel support, dill, foraged weeds, 23" x 16" x 6".

Within Reach, 2016

Installation | Handwoven double weave monofilament nylon, spray paint mono prints, corrugated roofing panels, stone paper.

It Started With A Line, 2016

Sculpture | Handwoven shadow weave, cotton industrial sewing thread and monofilament nylon

How To Pause Light, 2015

C-print of handwoven monofilament nylon, 16" x 20".

care of - indigo no. 1 (expansion), 2014

Sculpture | Handwoven digital jacquard samite, dyed indigo cotton, linen, merino wool, embroidery floss, dyed machine knit monofilament cords, 16” x 20” x 12”.

Photo courtesy of Antoine Guilhem-Ducléon

care of - noir de mars, no. 1 (fluidity), 2014

Sculpture | Handwoven digital jacquard samite, cotton, linen, merino wool, embroidery floss, dyed machine knit monofilament cords, 7.5" x 7.5" x 4".

Photo courtesy of Olivier Gariépry

care of - écru, no. 1 et no. 2 (fluidity), 2014

Sculpture | Handwoven digital jacquard samite, cotton, linen, merino wool, embroidery floss, machine knit monofilament cords, 15" x 15" x 8" et 7.5" x 7.5" x 4".

Photo courtesy of Antoine Guilhem-Ducléon

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On the Form of the Teeth Through the Wheels

Surface Tension

Blind Trust

Songbird's Syrinx (The ear perceives but cannot transmit)

Touch Holds the Future's Afterimage

Speaking Through Flowers

Decorative Elements (декоративные элементы)

Dūmukli

Sakte