Elektra KB
Elektra KB stands out in any crowd as a vegan feminist artist and singer for a NYC based punk-darkwave band called Rosa Apatrida. Born in the Ukraine and raised in Colombia, Elektra spent her childhood roaming through the rural hospitals where her parents worked as doctors. Even then, she knew she wanted to be an artist. Elektra’s passion is manifested in her work, and she experiences no separation between art and life as her work conveys her voice so clearly that you are transfixed by its ferocity. Her art is executed in a variety of materials and speaks from her feminist perspective on the human capacity for barbarity, including war, oppression, genocide, sexual aggression, and neocolonialism. Elektra seeks to provide others a window into the true reality of the world as she sees it through her art.
From the artist:
My work has been focused in the alienating experiences of humanity and anti-natural behaviors and the absurd self-destructive path that humanity seeks. I work within four themes. Insurgent Women (stitching in fabric, felt and photography pieces), Revenge of the Piece of Meat; a series of feminist portraits, Disasters of Humanity (photography and collage) and The Theocratic Republic of Gaia; a series that encompasses photographs, collage and video. My work talks about the human capacity for barbarity which encompasses: War, oppression, total disregard of other species (specisism), terrorism of state, genocide, sexual aggression and objectification of women, false moral, or as I call it double moral and neocolonialism. I like to confront humans in respect to what they really are in a materialist dialectic state, because it is something universal; blood thirsty anthropocentric predators that live in a perpetual state of hierarchy. Humans are alienated from their own humanity and animality. My work is also autobiographical.
The Insurgent Women series is made with stereotypically women oriented materials, with images that evoke the destruction and horror of warfare and its absurdity as a megalomaniac compulsion of gluttony in humankind. The material itself also speaks about women in art being allowed only to work with fabrics, sewing and weaving through history, because, sculpture and painting where considered “manly” jobs. The pieces have photographs printed on canvas, felt pieces stitched in to patterned fabrics, with embroidery. The insurgent women in my pieces are sometimes vomiting red metallic threads, sometimes making a dancing war and sometimes they are spectators returning the gaze.
The Theocratic Republic Of Gaia, is a fictitious world that I have created where my characters exist; The Papess, the Theocratic Army, etc…The Theocratic republic is a globalized civilization where the population gets brainwashed and forgets what reality is. Contemporary society is trapped in a world of lies staged by the powerful governments and corporations; they are the new theocratic governments, becoming more important than god. The media and consumerism are the new subjects of doctrine and adoration. These happenings are producing a brainwashed society, which the powerful are aiming to manipulate. In the Theocratic Republic Of Gaia, the possibility of a worldwide staging of an artificial "return of Christ" is awaited, and efforts to establish a theocratic, fascist world government are taking place. It also predicts an imminent period of intense geological and social upheaval during which tensions built up over centuries will be discharged.
