a drusy vein / Inclusion 4
Discrete changes took place in the final inclusion of Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson’s exhibition a drusy vein, which featured a reading by actor Elina Löwensohn. The artists invited Elina to wear the emerald pendant during one of her performances, unbeknownst to the audience. Afterwards Elina wrote a text as a record of this instance, which she read during the exhibition a drusy vein.
The reading defined a set of relations to Emerald, one of four objects that comprise Making a Record (Diamond, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald) by Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson.
Text by Elina Löwensohn
Elina Löwensohn is a Romanian-born American actor, living in France. Her roles and appearances films, videos, photos, performances and theater works indicate a clear taste for metamorphosis. In the 1990’s she began working in New York’s independent theater and cinema scene, with performances in Simple Men (Hal Hartley), Amateur (Hal Hartley), Fay Grim (Hal Hartley), Basquiat (Julian Schnabel), Nadja (Michael Almereyda) and collaborating on theater pieces with Richard Foreman and Travis Preston. Elina has also acted in popular films such as Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg), The Wisdom of Crocodiles (Leong Po-Chi) and in the tv series Seinfeld. In France, she has appeared in Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux), La Vénus Noire (A. Kechiche), Lourdes (Jessica Hausner), De la guerre (Bertrand Bonello) as well as in more popular films such as La guerre est déclarée (Valérie Donzelli), Un dimanche de fiançailles (Jean-Pierre Jeunet), Romaine par moins 30 (Agnès Obadia). She is the writer and co-director of the film L’âme du temps. Her inclination for performance has brought her to work with visual/video artists such as Marcelline Delbecq and director Bertrand Mandico, who has directed her in his films Boro in the Box and Living still life. With Mandico, she has imagined a series of films and polymorphous creations, based on the idea of the mise en abyme of the actor/director dynamic (a series of 20 films in 20 years).