The Tears of Things is an ongoing project influenced by Evelinas education as a conservator, the transience of the material and the relationship to our own and the objects' cessation. The process is based on the book The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects by Peter Schwenger, whose work also serves as a philosophical bridge between art and preservation.
A THING AMONG THINGS
"We surround ourselves with material things that are invested with memories but can only stand for what we have lost. Physical objects - such as one's own body - situate and define us; yet at the same time they are fundamentally indifferent to us… It (this work) reveals the object as the self´s ultimate other.”
-The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects, 2006
Evelina Borén is an artist who creates material oriented sculptural works.
She is inspired by human behaviour and is particularly interested in the consequences of fear. She works with the problematic approach towards value, the search for meaning and with mortality.
Evelina holds a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design and is currently studying Science in Conservation
with Specialisation in Cultural Heritage Objects at the University of Gothenburg.
