EDLEN LAVAN
The Network Series
The Network Series
installation series
2025 (ongoing)
Exhibited at Cosmoscow International
Contemporary Art Fair 2025
The project explores the art market as part of consumer culture. It compares art collecting with shopping – the former perceived as an intellectual and elitist pursuit, the latter stereotypically dismissed as “women’s trivia”. In these works, collecting becomes a playful act, and art objects and consumer goods are shown as interconnected phenomena. Each piece is an homage to renowned artists such as Salvador Dalí, Damien Hirst, and Jeff Koons. The artist’s personal background in the advertising industry and her observations of the art market’s mechanisms enable her to critically reflect on the parallels between consumption and collecting through her artistic practice.
Ultimately, art remains a living space of play, irony, and freedom, where value is not always defined by the market.
installation series
2025 (ongoing)
Exhibited at Cosmoscow International
Contemporary Art Fair 2025
The project explores the art market as part of consumer culture. It compares art collecting with shopping – the former perceived as an intellectual and elitist pursuit, the latter stereotypically dismissed as “women’s trivia”. In these works, collecting becomes a playful act, and art objects and consumer goods are shown as interconnected phenomena. Each piece is an homage to renowned artists such as Salvador Dalí, Damien Hirst, and Jeff Koons. The artist’s personal background in the advertising industry and her observations of the art market’s mechanisms enable her to critically reflect on the parallels between consumption and collecting through her artistic practice.
Ultimately, art remains a living space of play, irony, and freedom, where value is not always defined by the market.
“Blue Dog Go Round”
The Network Series, 2025
Acrylic glass, plaster, wire netting
Limited edition of 7
The Network Series, 2025
Acrylic glass, plaster, wire netting
Limited edition of 7
“Soup of the Day”
The Network Series, 2025
Acrylic glass, string bag, Campbell's Soup
The Network Series, 2025
Acrylic glass, string bag, Campbell's Soup
“Blue Dog”
The Network Series, 2025
Acrylic glass, plaster, wire netting
The Network Series, 2025
Acrylic glass, plaster, wire netting
“Baby Sharks”
The Network Series, 2025
Acrylic glass, fishing line net, plush toys
The Network Series, 2025
Acrylic glass, fishing line net, plush toys
“Baby Sharks Go Round”
The Network Series, 2025
Acrylic glass, wire netting, plush toys
Limited edition of 7
The Network Series, 2025
Acrylic glass, wire netting, plush toys
Limited edition of 7
The Network Series, 2025
Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair 2025
Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair 2025
“Chupa Go Round”
The Network Series, 2025
Acrylic glass, string bag, Chupa Chups
Limited edition of 7
The Network Series, 2025
Acrylic glass, string bag, Chupa Chups
Limited edition of 7
