Elvira Ferrazini
Bio
Elvira lives in Rosario, and her artistic practice is closely tied to laboratory craftsmanship and analog photography. She studied at the Escuela Municipal Manuel Musto with photographers Andrea Ostera, Gabriela Muzzio, and Cecilia Lenardón. She attended workshops with Gabriela Muzzio, Andrea Ostera, Clarisa Appendino, Néstor Garrido, Guillermo Ueno, Juan Perazza, and Beto Gutierrez. She also participated in a laboratory workshop at CIFHA with Emilio Casabianca.
Her collective exhibitions include "El regusto de la Aventura" at Subsuelo Art Gallery (2023), "Hábitat" at the Escuela Municipal Manuel Musto (2023), and the participation and presentation of the 4th Photographic Portfolio "Lumen" from the Esc. Mun. Manuel Musto (2023) at the Vanzo house in Rosario during the Art Week (2023).
Elvira also participated in the AAMEC Contemporary Photography Award at the Emilio Caraffa Museum in Córdoba (2022), the 6th MicroFeria Art Fair at Subsuelo Gallery in Rosario (2022), Subsuelo Gallery at the BAPhoto Fair at Palacio Ortiz Basualdo (2021), "Aprendí que en un minuto de cielo está todo el cielo" at Patio Bullrich (2021), and the 73rd National Salon of Rosario Castagnino-Macro (2019). She had individual exhibitions at the Esc. Mun. Manuel Musto with "El placer de perder el tiempo" (2019) and at Subsuelo Gallery with the series "Ronda," "Les Espectadores," and "El silencio" (2019). Additionally, she exhibited at the Centro audiovisual Rosario (CAR) with "Les trabajadores autogestionados" (2017) and in the collective exhibition "Monoambiente" at the Cultural University Space (ECU) (2017).
Elvira participated in the self-publishing of her books "Box 620" and "El placer de perder el tiempo" at the Lisbon and Madrid Book Fairs (2017) and at the Fotos de Autor Book Fair in Buenos Aires in 2014 and 2012. She was selected to be a part of the book "Rosario está ciudad" by the Municipal Rosario Editorial (EMR) in 2015, the 2nd edition of the Photographic Portfolio of the Esc. Mun. Manuel Musto (2015), and the pamphlet of emerging photography by the Centro de expresiones contemporáneas (cec) (2013).
She received the 2nd prize at the MEC Museum in Tilcara (2012) and the Trabajadoras hacia la igualdad de oportunidades y derechos competition awarded by the Gender Subsecretary of Santa Fe (2016).
Statement
From the beginning, I have been interested in craftsmanship both inside and outside the analog laboratory. The first stage involves researching, studying, searching, and collecting materials, reviewing archives, or taking photographs with different analog machines. The second stage is when the laboratory becomes the creative space, where all the necessary elements are deployed to assemble and disassemble, transform, create collages, recreate small scenarios, photographic albums, frames, and supports - anything that can be discarded or forgotten adds to generating new projects.
My focus is on simple everyday experiences, images that highlight the insignificant, the invisible. I strive to create an intimate atmosphere to discover what lies behind them.
Additional information
Muros (2020-2021)
Sentir un silencio profundo frente a una eternidad cuadrangular.
Uno tras uno se apilan los ladrillos. Ladrillos artesanales, ásperos, rojizos.
Resisten estos muros sin juntas. Un orden que se establece según las manos que
los reciben, un paso de mano a mano, de unos a otros dándole una trama que se va
formando con ritmo de líneas verticales, horizontales, espacios, huecos, hendijas,
roturas, repetidos mil veces.
Conmueve este paisaje que parece deshabitado, tierra movida, escombros,
escaleras apoyadas sobre la trama de los muros que forman estructuras.
La mirada queda clavada sin tiempo y sin distancia. No puede encontrar, atravesar y
evadir el límite para llegar a ver el horizonte.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
