Air Oasis: BreatheCore-7 (2024) by Elnara Nasirli - subjektiv.art
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Elnara Nasirli
Artist from Azerbaijan
Elnara Nasirli is an Azerbaijani contemporary artist whose practice explores the intersection of environmental technology, biotechnology, and the natural world. Working across installation, sculpture, painting, sound, collage, and mixed media, she creates biomorphic environments that examine relationships between human perception, ecological systems, memory, and transformation.
Drawing on organic structures and natural processes, Nasirli combines reclaimed and unconventional materials with technological and sensory elements. Sound, spatial interventions, and interactive components play an increasingly important role in her practice, transforming her works into evolving environments rather than static objects.
Her artistic research focuses on ecological awareness, resilience, regeneration, and the complex relationships between humans and other forms of life. Through immersive and multisensory experiences, Nasirli explores the boundaries between the natural and artificial, living and non-living, while inviting viewers to reconsider their perception of and connection to the environment.
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Mechanical breathing tree: reclaimed walnut tree trunk, fitted with seven cylinder radial engine, motion sensor and washi paper kirigami lungs with carbon filter.
“Air Oasis" is a thought-provoking meditative installation that features a walnut tree, which died of natural causes, programmed to "breathe" mechanically to mimic an artificial lung ventilation apparatus. The installation blurs the lines between the organic and the mechanical, offering an immersive experience that speaks to our relationship with nature and the unseen vitality of plants.
The tree is also fitted with a carbon filter cotton, filtering the air with algae-driven CCS (carbon capture and storage), pointing to a future where artificial plants may take on the vital role of purifying our environment as living ecosystems decline. Through this fusion of organic form and mechanical function, the installation reflects on the unsettling possibility of a world where technology, rather than nature, sustains the balance of life and only manmade constructions are present to replicate nature's function on the planet.
Elnara Nasirli is an Azerbaijani contemporary artist whose practice explores the intersection of environmental technology, biotechnology, and the natural world. Working across installation, sculpture, painting, sound, collage, and mixed media, she creates biomorphic environments that examine relationships between human perception, ecological systems, memory, and transformation.
Drawing on organic structures and natural processes, Nasirli combines reclaimed and unconventional materials with technological and sensory elements. Sound, spatial interventions, and interactive components play an increasingly important role in her practice, transforming her works into evolving environments rather than static objects.
Her artistic research focuses on ecological awareness, resilience, regeneration, and the complex relationships between humans and other forms of life. Through immersive and multisensory experiences, Nasirli explores the boundaries between the natural and artificial, living and non-living, while inviting viewers to reconsider their perception of and connection to the environment.
