Fish Factory

Elizabeth Evans is a multidisciplinary artist from California, US.

The Fish Factory Artists Residency gave me the time and space to pursue artistic projects and questions that are important to me. I came to Iceland as a 2-dimensional collage artist but being in the center’s spaces with other artists engendered new directions in my thinking and I found my work evolving in interesting new directions. My 2-dimensional work blossomed into 3-dimensional boxes and coffins made of old photographs.

I also created a mock up for an installation I am interested in creating to full scale. That piece would involve a 6’x 6’ cube made of PVC with rows of paper chains hanging from PVC bars across the top of the cube like rows of paper curtains. The first row would consist of a paper silhouette of my step-father and me in an awkward dance. Each preceding row would show an increasingly abstract form representing the deterioration and change of psychic injuries over time. The final row would hold diaphanous shredded paper.