Elisa Strinna

ecologie - experimenteel - natuur - sculptuur - installatie

Elisa Strinna's work investigates the relationships that many different living beings establish with one another and with the spatial, geographical, and biological context they inhabit.
In practical terms, Strinna creates indiscriminate connections between technology, the natural world, and the human world, thus searching for spaces to think about the world out of the usual notions of progress guided by the logic of material accumulation, technological development, and resource exhaustion.
Her interventions can be described as Cosmological fantasies, spaces of multiplicity, and unexpected relations/correspondences among very different beings. Here the dominant binary logic of the rational mind fades, revealing syncretism, symbiosis, and hybridization, systems of relationships that require practices other than those of hierarchy and domination. (Nuno Crespo)

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    • The Garden of Banes - The Garden of Banes, cement and iron, 90 x 50 cm, 95 x 55 cm, 2023 Photo: Parco Carta, Soveria Mannelli, (IT). The installation is constituted by two sculptures in concrete surrounded by a selection of plants that have historical relation to the persecution of women in Europe during the Inquisition, by being mentioned in the witch trial records, or by being associated with witchcraft from the local community of Soveria Mannelli.
    MY BODY IS A PLANT – Roots my nervous sytem - Sculpture, 66 x 54 x 46 cm, porcelain painted with majolica technique, 2022. Work realized within the framework of documenta fifteen; Jimmie Durham and A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road, documenta fifteen, Kazimkuba, Kassel, 2022; photo by Nic Ash. "My Body is a Plant - Roots my nervous system" investigates the relationship between Valeriana's root and the human nervous system. In the sculpture, the plant's roots become one with our peripheral nervous system giving life to a hybrid body, which explores the relationships and correspondences between two different organisms.
    My Body is a Plant- Belladonna - Porcelain, 22 x 36 cm, 2023. My Body is a Plant: The Garden of Banes (work in progress) explores phytotherapeutic practices and the history of women’s persecution, examining plants for which women were indicted in the witchcraft trials
    The Garden of Banes – Henbane - 02.My Body is a Plant - Henbane, porcelain, 43 x 16 cm, 2023. My Body is a Plant: The Garden of Banes (work in progress) explores phytotherapeutic practices and the history of women’s persecution, examining plants for which women were indicted in the witchcraft trials.
    PEOPLE WILL MISS THE EARTH - installation, mixed media ( porcelain and film projection), 2022. Calm Before the Storm, Radius CCA, Delft, 2022-23; photo Gunnar Meier © RADIUS CCA. MICROGRAVITY LANDSCAPE. Sculpture, 36 x 32 cm, porcelain painted with majolica technique, 2022. Reproduction of scientific experiment showing gravitropic orientation of Mashroom Flammulina velutipes fruiting bodies grown in culture under different gravitational conditions.THE ANTARCTIC GARDENER. Film, 24 minutes, 2022.
    THE ANTARCTIC GARDENER - film, 24 minutes, 2022; photo: Calm Before the Storm, Radius CCA, Delft, 2022-23; photo Gunnar Meier © RADIUS CCA. Through the story of the confinement of edible plants and a queer scientist in an extreme environment, the Antarctic Gardener reflects on isolation’s physical, emotional, and psychological effects, speculating on the future of space colonization.
    The Upwelling - Video, 6.45 m 2018/2019; photo, Alexander Delmar, Blind Sun, Culturgest Porto, 2020; The Upwelling follows some of the fiber optic cables going from Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, to Tunisia. The invisible flow of information goes together with the story of a young migrant telling his journey from Nigeria to Italy.
    Electrical Symbiosis / Blind Sun - Porcelain, 110 x 30 cm, 202. Trade Winds in the Age of Underwater Currents at A Tale of a Tub, photo LNDW Studio. The undersea cables are inhabited by different marine species such as the sea anemone Metridium farcimen or the sponge Phylum Porifera. Even when buried under the sand, these creatures have been discovered to follow the fibers. It seems they are attracted by the electromagnetic fields emitted by the transoceanic cables, almost in symbiosis with electricity, disclosing new feral ecologies produced by the encounter of nature and human infrastructures.
    Blind Sun - Environmental Installation, 2021, mixed media (porcelain, porcelain plaster, cement, copper, alum crystals, water) variable dimension; Exhibition view, Trade Winds in the Age of Underwater Currents at A Tale of a Tub, photo LNDW Studio Conceived as an immersive experience, it researches and thinks of the cable from a human and a cosmic perspective. It can be defined as a sort of Cosmological fantasy, a space of multiplicity, and unexpected relations/correspondences among very different beings.
    Withered Season Flowers - Video, 6 minutes, 2022; Jimmie Durham and A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road, documenta fifteen, Kazimkuba, Kassel, 2022. Photo Nic Ash.