Exhibited at Galleria Doris Ghetta 13.06-20.07.2024

A series of 14 photographs of animal subjects and forms found in urban contexts, taken between 2019 and 2023 in places where Elisa has lived, Italy, Holland, Austria and Slovakia. The images stem from a desire to experience a dichotomy, the physical proximity between two normally distinct or opposing entities: freedom and captivity. The photographs include two elements, an inhabitant and an inhabited space, linked by an omnipresent thread that is their relationship of interdependence. The images connect, as well, to five sentences that reflect on the presented scenario: "1. The living body that becomes labor power for other living bodies; 2. The living body that performs and entertains the eye of those who watch it out of curiosity or simply out of boredom; 3. The living or dead body that becomes a symbol, and the symbol that becomes a living or dead body; 4. The dead body that becomes an object of veneration and celebration for the living body that observes it; 5. The living body that returns the gaze to another living body, and a moment of encounter happens there." The study of the animal experience in civilized society leads Elisa to an idea of nature as a hybrid of contrasts and diversity, of tensions between the controlled and the spontaneous, the familiar and the unfamiliar, an idea of nature that is apparently indefinite, but which is actually more and more established, daily and known, because it is experienced by everyone. Growing up on one continent but being born on another reinforces this and stimulates Elisa's critical thinking to explore or imagine a redefinition of 'natural'. 

73,2 x 108,2 cm frame 
38,2 x 56,2 cm frame
Fine Art photographic print on Verona Smooth Ultra White 280 gsm paper 


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