ELENA
ŠTROK
A storyteller’s life is
an excitement indeed:
All tales of unknown
I hope once to read
UPCOMING
2026
Rijksakademie (NL)
Tech Fellow | Print workshop
artist residency
Spring 2026
Gallery VN (CRO)
Baby Universe
Solo show
HEALING WATER BOOK
text, music, object, performance
performed at Drava Art Biennale 2019 and Garaža Kamba
2019/2021
Following the ancient rituals of bathing created for many occasions, from baptisms to weddings, this performance also wishes to cooperate with water in order to cleanse oneself, but also to help water in its natural process of cleansing itself.
Healing Water Book in its physical form is a small book of poems carved in acrylic glass and written in a mix of Croatian/Czech/Greek/Spanish/English. Language is, like water, a fluid matter. Ideally, even more languages are to be mixed together in the song book.
Overall, these poems give thanks to the healing properties of water and kindly ask for the water to help in the healing process. They are meant to be sung in the flowing source of water, after which the performers bathe themselves in it.