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ELISA CAPPELLARI

Bolzano, IT + 39 3334292861

elisa_cappellari@yahoo.it

@cappellari_archive

IDENTITY POWER ROLES

INTIMACY

GRADUATION PROJECT COMMISSIONS ABOUT

IDENTITY pp. 2-4

Feeling and understanding vulnerability is what I love. Following youths has therefore become a way to enter the purest condition, fear and desire of the human self. By leading short interviews and experimenting together with photography I get closer to the generation Y of my territory and its related challenges // Context: Music Incubator @musicincubator

POWER ROLES pp. 5-7

The relationship and conflict between wild and domestic and between human and animal is never-ending. In different spaces of the urban context I observe this topic and proximity of realms, where the subjects that I photograph become the reflection of a possible human condition. The images are between documentation and creation of meaning in order to stimulate thoughts about freedom of the individual self // Context: zoos, farms, natural history museums, animal shops

INTIMACY pp. 8-9

There are corners in which I can enter and it doesn’t literally mean physical ones. The camera allows me to get closer to subjects or spaces as an external observer ‘till to feel the right to be part of them, therefore, to mold my own sense of belonging in them. They can be people, animals or other matters and from the inner perspective it is always interesting to watch. // Context: environments of different kind based on my work focus

GRADUATION PROJECT pp. 10-12

In 2021 I graduated in Art & Photography from the KABK Royal Academy of Art Den Haag. The work is a search for the image of the wolf in my territory. To develop the work I interviewed different people dealing with the presence of the wolf both for professional and private circumnstances (wildlife technicians, farmers, mountain hut hoteliers, hunters, sheep breeders, historians, forest guards and natural park’s members). Nevertheless the work displays the wolf as a concept and mental image, not as a physical animal, leading the focus to the meaning of ‘stigma’ and its presence within the territory // Context: South Tyrol, IT

COMMISSIONS pp. 13-23

I accompany the personal work with commissions where my practice as a photographer comes in with the desire to photograph each reality with no supremacy // Context: SMACH, Martin Gruber Architect, Lungomare Bolzano-Bozen, VBB Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen, 3 Zinnen Dolomites Magazine, BASIS Vinschgau Venosta, RORHOF.