AELITA ANDRE




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(released - 2023)
Monograph by SKIRA 'Aelita Andre: Prodigy of Colour'
chronicling Aelita's first 15 years in the arts.

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I’ve been painting since before I could really speak, so for me, art has never been separate from life - it’s how I think, feel, and make sense of everything.
When I paint, sculpt, or work digitally, it feels like I’m translating something from the space between memory, dreams, and myth - places I can only reach through colour, texture, movement, and sound.
to abstraction, to those spontaneous, ephemeral shapes that feel ancient - like they’ve always been there, waiting. Sometimes they form stories or recognisable figures, like when we see creatures in clouds or constellations in the dark.
I don’t try to recreate the past - I want to break it open, reimagine it, and let something unfamiliar and alive grow through. Lately, I’ve started playing my paintings like instruments - what I call soundpaintings.
They’re a way of giving voice to what’s hidden in the work, to let it breathe and vibrate. The textures and strokes become sound, and suddenly the piece isn’t just visual - it’s resonating with something beyond me. Like the artwork itself is trying to speak in its own language, connecting the human and the universe.
My work isn’t really about explaining - it’s about feeling. Sometimes it’s messy, raw, surreal. But underneath it all, there’s always a kind of thread, like a silent story that doesn’t need words. I’m looking for that moment when something feels both familiar and unknown - like a part of you you didn’t realise was sleeping, suddenly waking up.

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