About the artist:
Elisa Merino C is a multidisciplinary artist, a creator who has been developing an intense artistic activity at the service of a shared, naked and essentialist work. Part of its social environment, its experiences, and its concern for inequalities, violence, claiming to propose new spaces of meetings of reflection. It uses recycled materials formally linked to so-called “poor art” and identifying them in the social environment to which they belong. Different disciplines, with different supports, installation, drawing, video, photography, sculpture, painting, enrich and leave trace of time. His work raises a return to values.
His research work is related to spaces in the anthropological field, mapping, roots and identity, memory, uses audiovisual media, photography, sculpture and painting. In recent years he has elaborated different cartography, emotional, recognition of work or cultural work, creating interactivity, being the viewer himself who makes the map The intervention of the viewer in space is constant generates complicity – creativity and new meanings.
On occasion, the artist has defined the purpose of her work with a phrase: “identity”, memory, present and future. A position as direct as it is complex that, deep down, only confirms the need for art as a catalyst for other ways of seeing, looking and questioning things.
