Elsa Salonen

Still Life with Flowers (Separation Funnels)

a decoloured flower bouquet and its distilled colour pigments, isomalt, glass, metal, cement
2023, 150×140×30 cm

The artist extracted colours from the different flowers of a bouquet (chinese delphiniums, alpine delphiniums, eucalyptus, safflowers, and roses), leaving the plants pale and colourless. The distilled colour pigments were then conserved in transparent isomalt and displayed in laboratory glass vessels alongside the white bouquet.

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Installation views: for The Finnish Institute, 2023 / Photographer: Joe Clark