2024 — EXISTENTIAL DUALISM
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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2023 — PLAY BABY PLAY
Exhibited during BAW - Bolzano Art Weeks
The installation is a cage with a pendant cube made of six photographs of toys for parrots. It translates the one-hour experience of Elisa inside a parrot store where the animal toys became objects of analysis of the concept of play and of the individual freedom of the players.
2x2 m metal cage
25x25 cm wooden photographic cube
Structure made by Insalatamista studio 
2023 — ON HOW TO LOOKAvailable to buy via Salto ArtstoreFive photographs of human and animal portraits and one manifesto text. The materials come from past archives and are taken within different environments and locations: a zoo, a university room, a shooting studio, a natural history museum. The collection tells what Elisa aspires to when photographing/observing a subject: the presence of non-hierarchy between photographer and photographed. 6 x A1 (59,4 x 84,1 cm)
6 x white poster hangers
2021 — IF YOU MEET HIM IT'S BECAUSE HE WANTS TO MEET YOU
Bachelor project for KABK Royal Academy of Art developed during the years 2020-2021. The project reflects on the presence of the wolf in South Tyrol (IT), the place where Elisa lives and has grown up, as a pretext to discuss local stigmas and the presence of labels within a community. Through photographs, images taken from historical books, and interviews with locals, Elisa collected voices about the presence of the wolf in the South Tyrolean landscape and connected them to her personal experience of adoption, making the narrative linked to this animal a broader tale of a sense of belonging and estrangement. The project bacame a printed book dummy layouted and produced by Elisa.
Images selected from the book.