Elisa Halvorsen Castillo
Oslo, Norway
Elisa Halvorsen Castillo (f. 1990) er en chilensk kunstner med norske røtter. Hun er basert i Oslo etter å nylig ha fullført en master i kunst og håndverk ved Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. Ved å jobbe med analoge eksperimentelle teknikker og selvutgitte kunstnerbøker, utforsker Elisa begrepet hukommelse og dets plastisitet, et emne som interesserer henne siden hun opplevde korttidshukommelsestap på grunn av en sykdom i midten av 20-årene.
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Publications
Espina (2024)
ESPINA is a Photobook made during an artist residency in Valparaíso, Chile.
This publication portrays the street, focusing on fences as a tense limitation between what's private and public. Observing how walls and barbed wire merge with local spiked vegetation, I reflect on how aggressive aspects of these barriers have a unique beauty that provokes nostalgia and positive emotional responses in me.
RISO printed by Cerro Press and hand-bound in an edition of 50 copies.
Parásitos (2024)
"Parásitos" Reflects on how parasites can provoke mental illness, this publication contains a collection of drawings of fictitious "Anxiety parasites". Illustrating the feeling of walking through a dense forest, the drawings overlap each other, as an allegory to brain fog caused by anxiety.
"Parásitos" is printed with RISO on translucent paper. Hand-bound in an edition of 15 copies.
