My work explores fluid, semi-contained environments where form is unstable and continuously shifting.
I am interested in water-like behavior: diffusion and slow transformation over time. Rather than treating the surface as fixed, I approach it as a responsive field where materials interact, spread, and resist control.
My works function as micro-environments: partially closed spaces with their own internal logic, where tension generates movement and change. Through this, I explore moments of transition, where form is emerging, dissolving, or not yet defined.
Elena Baranova is a Berlin-based artist from Moscow working in mixed media. Her practice explores semi-autonomous micro-environments and slow transformations of the body in space. Inspired by water, fluidity, and surrealist imagery, she investigates how internal states and external forces shape movement and form. Her work reflects on adaptation, perception, and the tension between control and change, creating spaces where observation and imagination coexist.