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    New Dawn (Tomorrow's Gone) Installation view after performance
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    New Dawn (Tomorrow's Gone) Installation view after performance, Ilona Balaga, 2023, performance, found objects, painted wood, bricks, scaffold boards, cement, fluorescent lights, newspaper, roses, flower foam, sound, glass

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    New Dawn (Tomorrow's Gone) detail
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    New Dawn (Tomorrow's Gone) detail, Ilona Balaga, 2023, laser cut newspaper

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    Toys for Big Boys
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    Toys for Big Boys, Ilona Balaga, 2020-2022, ceramics

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    This is Not a Love Song
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    This is Not a Love Song, Ilona Balaga, 2023, performance at Bloomsbury Theatre, 05:00"

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    Killing Time
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    Killing Time, Ilona Balaga, 2022, wool blanket, ceramics, cardboards cups, energy drink, 157 x 152 cm

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Ilona Balaga – MA/MFA/PhD

Based in London and Tel-Aviv

Through the landscape of urban living and post-modernity, of constant change and precarity, I create work that investigates the human condition in modern day life through the tension between collective and personal narratives. Working in a wide range of mediums, including installation, sculpture, video, sound and performance, I structure open-ended environments which borrow the language of the everyday. Fascinated by the movement and change that occur in the public space, the abundance of material, sound, smell, colour and texture, destruction and renewal—I am interested in the ephemeral moment juxtaposed with more solid systems such as architecture or social structures.