Elisabetta di Sopra

Born in 1969 in Pordenone (Italy)
Lives and works in Venice (Italy)

Elisabetta di Sopra graduated in 2010 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice; her thesis was on American artist Bill Viola. Her artistic research is expressed through the use of video language to investigate the most sensitive dynamics of everyday dimensions, as well as its unexpressed interior stories in which the female body plays a key role. She writes of her practice: “I'm the protagonist of my videos, the body is the privileged tool of expressing my work, it becomes a metaphor for our being in the world and thus the video art. Like music, like dance, it is a delicate gesture that actually materializes our feelings. Almost no dialogue exists in my videos. The body speaks through minimal gestures.” Di Sopra’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and festivals, including: MARCA Museum, (IT); "Possible Senses", Pizzinato Gallery, Pordenone (IT); Artist-run, Gallery Galaway, Ireland; THE PLAGIO D'ARTE D'ARTE, conference - Academy of Fine Arts Bologna; AUTHORITRATES The Showroom London; Paratissima 11, Turin (IT); and Künstlerhaus - body interference, Vienna; among many others.

Elisabetta di Sopra simply states of Dust Grains, on view at KB17: “Distant memories, those of childhood, are like dust grains in the eye...”