Artists

Eliyah Mesayer

Press release

A huntress has passed through the exhibition. She is never seen, yet her presence lingers in the objects she has left behind: letters, a tent, a bow, and six arrows. In Letters from a Huntress, Eliyah Mesayer’s first solo exhibition with NILS STÆRK, the artist continues her ongoing project Illiyeen, an imaginary state. Conceived as both a poetic nation and a conceptual manifestation, Illiyeen is brought into being through stories, rituals, and symbols. It has its own flag, uniforms, postal service, national anthem, and manifest, offering a place for those who exist between borders – between reality and fiction, politics and poetry. ELIYAH MESAYER Born in Kuwait, 1987 Lives and works in Copenhagen, DK Eliyah Mesayer is a Copenhagen-based visual artist of Bedouin heritage. Working across installation, performance, poetry, and works on paper, she balances on the threshold between reality and fiction, intertwining historical material with imagined narratives and dreamlike manifestations. Drawing on alchemical traditions, particularly the writings of Jabir ibn Hayyan, Mesayer explores transformation as both a material process and a conceptual method, creating encounters between different histories, symbols, and forms of knowledge. Central to her practice is Illiyeen, an ongoing project conceived as an imaginary state – a place beyond geographical and national boundaries. Through stories, rituals, symbols, performances, and installations, Mesayer brings this imaginary state into being as a space between politics and poetry, fact and imagination. Within this evolving world, she examines how power, identity, history, and belonging are formed, distributed, and represented.