Gaïa (Mother of Earth) Painting

Jelena Remetin is a visual artist working in the field of expanded painting, photography and film. Born in Split, Croatia, she has been living in Paris for over 2 decades where she studied multimedia at EFET, the renowned School of photography and film, in CEFPF, the European center for audiovisual production and she specialised in Virtual Reality in Dixit School in 2016 (mentor Michel Reihlac, direktor Arte TV). During her academic years, her short films were selected for numerous festivals including Cannes, Paris, Chicago, Madrid, St. Petersburg, Vebron Hyerres, Huatulco Mexico ... Her video piece based on a D. Lynch song titled "I Know" was included in the final selection of the David Lynch Official Competition and won the short film award at Disturb Awards in Paris in 2012. She was also a finalist at Estée Lauder Pink Ribbon Photo award 2013. Jelena's photographic and painting cycles were exhibited in Eze (City Museum, 2011), Toulouse (exhibition Traverse Vidéo, 2012), Berlin (Gallery Art Factory, 2013), Paris (Salon d'Automne, 2014; Nouvel Organon, 2013;), Split (New Year exhibition Photo Club Split, 2015) and Zagreb (Nano gallery, 2015). Her recent exhibition projects include a solo show titled "Wheel of Time" as part of the Rendez-vous Festival of France in Croatia (Media Center of the French Institute in Zagreb, 2015) and a participation in group exhibitions Art en Capital (Grand Palais, Paris, 2015). In January 2016, she hosted a solo show "Wheel of Fortune" in the Split Salon Galic which was open to the public during the night of museums. The projection of her latest 40 minute long film BODYCOMBAT in MM Student Center in Zagreb as part of the "Short Images" program premiered in April 2016 as did her audio-visual installation "There are people in any place" in Lauba-museum with the support of the Ministry of Culture Croatia, City of Zagreb and the French Institute, March / April 2016. In 2015 Jelena represented France and Croatia at the UNESCO Art Camp Malta for Peace workshop, and her triptych "Hope, Loss, Anxiety", created as part of the residency, became a part of UNESCO's art collection in Malta. In July 2016, she also represented France and Croatia at the UNESCO Art for Peace workshop in Andorra. The works she created in residence in Andorra are on display at the UN in New York. Her new artwork titled "FOR vs.