Elvira Zambrana Horvei
Elvira Horvei is an interdisciplinary artist who works with sculpture and photography. She attended the Artist Residency Program at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2023 after graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2023. 


Soft Shiny Star City
2024


‘Soft Shiny Star City’
Gamle Munch
Oslo, Norway

2024 “Soft Shiny Star City was a two-person exhibition at Gamle Munch (Oslo). By combining their individual methods of organizing experiences, father and daughter duo Øivin and Elvira Horvei envision new ways of perceiving saturated environments. Elvira’s analog photographs of self-made sculptures made of plastic bottles and Øivin’s abstractly painted canvases structured in the form of awnings blend into a visual dialog that makes up an imagined cityscape. Situated in both rooms are two viewing boxes constructed using mechanisms of reflection that propose a certain way of looking before one is presented with a representation of a city, not a city itself.

A soft shiny star city is the city in the sky, the city on the ground, the city in our minds, the city that we feel. It’s all the things you cannot see – it thinks, it hums and it dreams. An assemblage of leftovers from last night’s dinner with some new ingredients from today. The illusion of the mapmaker. Seeing is not the same.” 

- Excerpt from Press Release written by Elvira Horvei and Øivin Horvei.


Queens Skyway in Color
Darkroom Print, Large Format Photograph
30 x 40 cm
Children of the Sun
Archival Pigment Print, Large Format Photograph
30 x 40 cm
U (holding something and putting it back)
Metal, Glass, Mirror, LEDs, 4x5 Large Format Positive, Bottle
8 x 4 1/4 x 6 inches


Lucy [left]
Archival Pigment Print, Medium Format Photograph
20 x 25 cm

Boston Floater [right]
Darkroom Print, Large Format Photograph
30 x 40 cm
Goonie
Archival Pigment Print, Medium Format Photograph
30 x 40 cm
Maimoun [by Øivin Horvei]
Airbrush on Canvas
70 x 80 x 30 cm





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