ELEEN HALVORSEN

Eleen Halvorsen is a New York-based Norwegian-born artist and designer working across different mediums spanning garment making, leatherwork, painting and sculpture.

Through her interdisciplinary practice, Halvorsen explores themes of identity, self expression and sexuality, challenging conventional boundaries of femininity and the expectations placed upon the female body.

 Over the past decade, she has examined and shaped the notion of the body through what we wear, contemplating our psychological and emotional relationship to clothing as an extension of self. Her considered use of transformational materials such as leather and suiting, each charged with cultural, sexual, and gendered associations, tests the boundaries of perception and propriety, operating on the edge of fetishism. 

Halvorsen describes her process as one of deliberate opposition, an interplay between control and surrender, sensuality and restraint. “There has to be a certain tension in my work, whether it’s incorporating bondage elements into traditional tailoring, or juxtaposing traditionally masculine construction materials like concrete and steel with organically abstract bodies. I’m drawn to the raw feminine, the point where beauty, discomfort, and desire converge.”

Born and raised in Norway, Eleen Halvorsen moved to New York to attend Parsons The New School for Design, from where she graduated in 2012. In April 2013 she launched her first conceptual capsule collection. Halvorsen has achieved editorial and written coverage from top publications including: Interview Magazine, L'Officiel, Numero Tokyo, SCHON, Contributor Magazine, StyleZeitgeist, S Magazine and Huffington Post among others.

 

 

Contact: atelier@eleenhalvorsen.com

Instagram:  @eleenhalvorsen