About — ELEONORA EDREVA

ELEONORA EDREVA

Projects:

re-
inearth/unearth
At each doorway,
Yelling Pillow
Cradle to grave
re-patterning slowly
The sound that surrounds
Once upon a future
A Garden...
Windy Season
Eau Doom

Video Work
Writing

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Eleonora Edreva is a transdisciplinary storyteller who works in ever-shifting arrangements of mediums and modes: weavings made from threads, text, or electrical cables; scents and videos, rituals and participatory workshops, collaboration with people, plants, and places. Her practice offers poetic invitations for cultivating (re)connection in our human, beyond-human, and place-based relationships, acknowledging that meaningful change happens when we heal and move from both the individual and collective levels simultaneously.

Sometimes her work takes on a material form, sometimes it engages the invisible efforts of weaving and tending to webs of relationships. Her practice celebrates slowness—she moves with time: the time it takes to sink fully into the senses, the time it takes to find the right words, the time it takes to process a natural dye, the time it takes to plant, nurture, harvest, and experiment. Eleonora’s work is deeply informed by her childhood immigration from Bulgaria to the U.S. and her ongoing search for connection to and belonging within places, lineages, histories, and cultures.

She holds a BA in English Language & Literature from the University of Chicago, an MFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals such as the University of New Mexico Art Museum (Albuquerque, NM), Access Gallery (Vancouver, BC), Images Festival (Toronto, ON), and the Flat Earth Film Festival (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland), among others. Eleonora is currently a 2024/2025 Fulbright Research Fellow in Bulgaria.

ele.edreva@gmail.com