Elina Chi-Won
My work confronts identity, psychology, and the darker edges of human behavior.
Born into Greek, Korean, and Russian heritage and raised between Germany and Greece, I developed a perspective shaped by displacement, contradiction, and layered identity. This includes my experience of being agender, aromantic, and asexual, and of living outside conventional norms. These tensions are not merely the background of my work; they form its core.
Working across painting, photography, writing, music, film, and visual storytelling, I explore the subconscious, morality, perception, violence, and the forces that construct or distort the self.
With a background in psychology and criminology—and ongoing PhD research examining the psychology of serial killers—my creative practice engages directly with the instability of identity and the darker structures underlying human behaviour.
My visual work moves between oil, graphite, mixed media, and photography, often occupying the space between attraction and discomfort. Projects including Lucifer, My Dear, Unseen, and Project Lethe draw from mythology, psychological inquiry, death, memory, and internal landscapes.
As a writer, I develop fictional and cinematic worlds centred on identity, obsession, violence, and transformation. These include The Meridian Record and Moros: The Cruel Crown, alongside poetry, fiction, and experimental narrative work. I am also developing short films that bring these psychological and narrative concerns into moving image.
My practice extends into music as a musician, songwriter, and lyricist. Through my own music and collaborations such as Sticky Shorts, I combine lyrics, sound, imagery, and creative direction to build distinct artistic worlds. My work with Sticky Shorts foregrounds gay experience, outsider perspectives, and forms of desire that resist being made safer for mainstream acceptance.
Across these forms, I aim to confront, question, and reframe rather than offer easy resolution. I collaborate with artists, musicians, brands, filmmakers, and other creatives interested in crossing disciplines and pushing beyond conventional limits.
