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Born in 2000, Elena was brought up in a Korean-French household and educated at an international school in Switzerland- the friction between being different and being the same very palpable. This friction sparked her need to understand the unfamiliar, question the familiar, and is responsible for the work she conducts today.
Growing up, Elena had a passion to dance and took part in several competitions, namely the YAGP in which she came top 12 of Europe. Despite it's great joy, dance bares a darker side. At this young age, she confronted the impossible standards to which women are held - physically, mentally, and emotionally. Elena researched this harsh reality through visual art, investigating the work of many female artists that came before her. Art is political. Art is protest. Art is an act of resistance.
With a desire to further study how people relate to each other, Elena completed her degree in International Relations at King's College London. Conversations surrounding the history of war, peacekeeping, and diasporas were a daily occurrence and she learned to question, provoke, and inspire the people around her. Every move is political. Every move is protest. Every move is an act of resistance.
Elena continued to dance while also getting elected as dance charities officer, coordinating with and fundraising for charities all across the UK. These organisations focused on the elderly as well as the differently abled and Elena often volunteered her time in person. Finding that small acts can make a real and true change struck a chord. So today, she continues to do so as a Projects Officer for a Housing and Regeneration Community Association in East London "creating opportunities that realise community potential through exceptional homes and thriving places, with social justice at [their] core". She is on a greater mission that helps people move from surviving to thriving.
Elena is an artist, a creator, a thinker, a listener, an advocate... her passion to help others evident in how she lives, in what she does.
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