Illustration for the beer label by Elen Alien in London

Elen Alien is a London-based professional full-time artist born in Ukraine. She employs various mediums, including sculpture, digital art, oil painting, and herbaria, in her practice that transcends borders between nature, technology, and human identity. Elen Alien’s art is her emotional response to the events and mood of the surrounding world and her way to digest information, survive changes, and understand herself better. Inspired by personal experiences, psychoanalytic and philosophical theories, places, and materials around her, her art invites viewers to contemplate their inner worlds. The human body is a recurring motif in her work, symbolizing vulnerability, introspection, and interconnectedness in her art. Currently, she works in cooperation with a team of non-human actors - AI and Nature – on the phygital (combining physical and digital art forms) project “The Garden of Transcendence,” which seeks to understand the dynamic and evolution of our relationships with nature and technology, igniting conversations about new types of interaction. It portrays today’s humanity balancing natural and digital environments as their only connecting point. Elen Alien’s project provokes introspection and appreciation for the complexities of the human condition, ultimately encouraging a conscious design of our position in the ever-evolving world and helping us to perceive the interconnectedness of all existence.