Untitled (20 train trips)
Elisa Bergel Melo

On October 26th, 2016 artist in residence Elisa Bergel Melo opened her studio show the work she developed during her weeks in Buenos Aires. Elisa registered the trip she did daily in the public trains in her way to the ´ace studio and back home, getting a glance of the diversity of activities that unfold everyday both inside and outside the trains. All this work was presented in the format of photographies, collages, founded objects and drawings. Elisa received the public at The Tower studio, and she talked with them sharing her ideas and reflections.

ABOUT UNTITLED (20 TRAIN TRIPS)

The approach from an unknown space to the construction of everyday life is an action that interests the artist Elisa Bergel Melo. From her stay in Buenos Aires within the framework of Proyecto´ace’s Exploration residency, she used 20 train trips as means of reflection on human behavior. From the experience of movement and behavior patterns that emerge from the circumstantial coexistence of public spaces, opposite concepts arise as order and chaos, interior and exterior , tensions from where the elements that make up the construction of the city originate as a meeting place between various experiences. Using different subjects and photographic techniques, the artist travels from the inside to the outside to establish patterns of behavior and possible observation,s to cover traditional formats such as portraiture and landscape at the service of fortuitous encounters with the unexplored.