Elisa Strada
Bio
Santa Fe, 1970. Graduated from Graphic Design at UBA. She attended the workshops of Pablo Siquier, Diana Aisenberg and she was part of the Program of Workshops for the Visual Arts C.C.R.Rojas-UBA | Kuitca, 2003-2005. She has exhibited in numerous individual and group shows in the country and abroad. Among them stand out; Dulce de Esmeralda, Solo Show in New York (2019), Model to Build and Common Place, Rescue I in Madrid, Rescue II in Buenos Aires, Fireworks in Barcelona (2003), Passages and Tutifruti, Borombombón, Beuys and beyond – Teaching as art. In 2001, she obtained the First Prize for Digital Art at the ICI XIII Video Art Festival and in 2005 the OSDE Foundation Regional Acquisition Prize in photography. In 2006 she participated in the Ninth Havana Biennial. In 2012 she was selected in the Ninth Edition Petrobras Arteba Award to participate with the Invisible Multisector.
Statement
His work acquires total consistency thanks to a subtle work of poetic observation. Endowed with acute sensitivity and incisive humor, Strada insistently fixes her gaze on social phenomena, delicately processing the ways of inhabiting public space and establishing relationships linked to the political in terms of collective citizen participation. Like this in the city and the street; also in her house and workshop. Both spaces become a contact and meeting zone from which she produces a vibrant, varied and vital plastic language, building compositions that establish an indiscernible place between visual landscape and abstraction. Images dense in connotations that touch the social, the formal and the public. It is this constitutive ambiguity of her pieces that allows her to conceive her work as a way of saving what is fragile and ephemeral in everyday experience; a sensitive re-encoding process or a secret language that we all speak.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
