FIRE ELEMENT
2023-2025
Wall-based sculptures, 35mm photography.
FIRE ELEMENT works with burning as both process and gesture. Wood and canvas are exposed to fire, leaving behind charred surfaces, marks, and structural changes. The works focus on what remains after this action: traces of heat, rupture, and material stress. Light elements occasionally amplifies these effects, highlighting surfaces and traces left by burning.
Rather than representing destruction, the project examines how materials register change and hold evidence of what has passed through them, making space for transformation.

'FIRE ELEMENT' - PROCESS (2023) — analog photography, 35 mm film.

AURORA (2024) — mixed media of fire, wood, spray paint, LED tube light, hardware. 150 x 40 cm.

AURORA - PROCESS (2024) — analog photography, 35 mm film.

OMINOUS (2023) — mixed media of fire, wood, graphite pencil and spray paint. 170 x 140 cm.

OMINOUS - PROCESS (2023) — analog photography, 35 mm film.

fire element exhibited during 'the unrequested’ group show at notagallery, Berlin (2025).

THE LIGHT INSIDE IS BROKEN, BUT I STILL WORK (2023) — mixed media, 120 x 100 cm. 'LENA ZAK' SOLO EXHIBITION AT SPÄTIBROS, BERLIN (2024).

THE LIGHT INSIDE IS BROKEN, BUT I STILL WORK (2023) — mixed media, 120 x 100 cm.

Frágil (2023) — mixed media, 100 x 100 cm.

frágil - process (2023), analog photography, 35 mm film.