ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ena Ellanhi creates spaces where color travels freely. She explores how shades, textures, and simple objects from her past and present can transform into entire universes — sometimes soft and harmonious, sometimes bold and bright, yet always deeply personal.
Her works are hidden rooms you can enter, linger in, and almost hear something inside you awaken from memory: images from childhood when apple trees bloomed so lushly and sweetly; ordinary objects once belonging to close, beloved people; all the happiest moments — or even fears, or questions that still have no answers.
In each composition there is a desire to capture, mute, or sometimes exaggerate an emotion, a memory, a state of the soul, so the mind can find beauty to hold on to — especially when there is war, chaos, and an uncertain future outside.
In each composition there is a desire to capture, mute, or sometimes exaggerate an emotion, a memory, a state of the soul, so the mind can find beauty to hold on to — especially when there is war, chaos, and an uncertain future outside.
Ena creates worlds that remind us: even the smallest details around us can become sources of wonder, warmth, and a quiet dialogue with ourselves. These are places one wants to return to, again and again — hoping to one day find all the answers.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am fascinated by how our inner state changes the way we perceive color. How, in moments of stress, the mind suddenly begins to cling to beauty, even when it is hidden inside the most ordinary objects. Sometimes it feels as if the mind creates brightness on its own when reality lacks it. That brightness can surprise — or even shock.
In my work, I assemble worlds out of simple forms: boxes, doors, staircases. These are metaphors. Images of the soul’s hidden corners. Labyrinths we wander through when we try to understand ourselves. Sometimes this space feels like a dream; sometimes it appears as a vivid flash of memory; sometimes it becomes a quiet conversation with oneself.
I build these spaces through color and texture. Through light that can be both soft and strict. It is important to me that the viewer feels warmth — that small, sudden sense of joy that appears unexpectedly and keeps us afloat.
My photographs are an attempt to gather memory, emotion, and light within a single frame. Little windows through which one can look inward and find something good.