Elias Saile (b. 2001) is a German artist living and working in Leipzig, DE. His work is informed by a dual momentum — shaped as much by memory as by media, by fleetingness as by specificity.

Saile’s paintings subtly convey, through their surface, the feeling of digital fragmentation within an analogue body. They exist not in denial but in a state of perpetual mimesis. The figures in his work emerge as references drawn from his coming of age amidst online pop culture — from a context defined by digital image production and circulation — yet their material and sensibility reach back (and forth) toward the classical.