Elodie Graf

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I am Swiss/Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist b.2001, based in London. I also release music compose and produce under the alias etherbaby. I graduated from BA fine art from Central Saint Martins in 2026.

My visual work has been described as “manic gen-z girl absurdism” by a viewer. Fine. Through a combination of self-portraiture, performance and the use of ephemeral materials, I look into the cultural obsession with an idealized forever-girlhood and the aestheticization of female suffering. Specifically, the relation of both these things to spectatorship and self-spectatorship.

I am interested in the dissociation / fragmentation inherent in “becoming” (or not-becoming, or performing) a woman and how this not-becoming intersects with the ghostliness and recursive nature of culture in the 2020s, (as best described by Mark Fisher), as well as the political implications of this not-becoming in the current landscape.

On a deeper level my work aspires to create alternate mythologies and aesthetics around integrating the violence of our everyday lives, as well as imagining ways of honestly metabolizing this reality; a future beyond shame or bedazzled self destruction.

Though, right now, I mostly make fun of things.

I draw from existentialist feminism, mysticism, Jungian psychoanalysis, theories around hauntology + the cyber-gothic, and a chronically online analysis of pop culture. Some things I’ve written:

Sabrina Carpenter and the Great Big Nightmare

Purity Culture is Driving Us Insane (the closest thing I’ll ever write to a manifesto)

exhibitions / performances

"Whom the Gods Notice They Destroy" Fedrigoni papers (exhibiton of publication), spring 2022

"Blue" - music video film exhibited at Lethaby Gallery London, May 2022

Akut Magazine Headquarters Zürich (performance) , Summer 2022

"Between Trenches" exhibition PV (performance) The Koppel Project Bank (London), Feb 2023,

"Objects of Dystopia" exhibition PV (performance) Riva Studios London, September 2023

“Emerge” Bomb Factory Art Foundation Shoreditch, (paintings) 24th Jun- 4th July 2025

“Attention Without Object” Pistil Collective, (installation) Candid Arts Trust Angel, October 2025

“Britpop” as part of Haus of Gugu residency at The White Swan, Whitechapel (performance)

“Held in Transit”, Pistil Collective (”Come on and Be a Winner” installation) May 2026, The Old Waiting Room, Pekham Rhye Station

“No Comment” presented by Nata Yanchur in collaboration with Cucumber Magazine, Bus Stop St Thomas’s Square, Hackney

“Infatuation” July 2026, presented by Paraklis, Copper Cats London (paintings)

Projects

“Come on and be a Winner”, 2025-

“For the Ghost I Love the Most - EP”, 2025

“Swan in Angel Costume - LP”, 2025

“Fragile - EP”, 2025

“There is a price for colour that only the flowers understand”, 2024

“I want to keep my heart open, but unfortunately” 2023

Swan Painting series 2022-

Selected Photography 2022-

Soundtrack for “Polar” animated short (composition), 2023

“Nothing is as beautiful as a dream and it hurts to even try - LP”, 2023

“Go Home”, 2022

“Angel of Neptune - single ”, 2022

“Whom the Gods Notice they Destroy”, 2022

“Is Red the Colour of Love or Violence?
Is White the Colour of Angels or Rage?” - 2021

©2026 Elodie Graf