Elena Redaelli

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Visual artist and researcher Redaelli explores matter's transformation processes of generation and decay, involving different levels of control and challenging the boundaries of authorship and active intervention. She explores the mattering of human and more-than-human relational aesthetics and the role of fibre-based recycled and organic materials as pivotal elements in fostering non-hierarchical Art, contributing to the broader discourse on sustainable practices. She's interested in examining how such multi-shaped materials can serve as tools to promote ecological awareness, inclusivity, and collective care, challenging traditional human-centred frameworks. In her projects, she employs horizontal, participatory and material-based research methodologies, theoretically engaging with relational aesthetics, object-oriented ontologies, queer and feminist theories, and new materialism. Through these lenses, she intends to emphasize the complex interplay of the processes' agent components in materialities created through encounters and layered multi-agency dynamics. Her projects foster the activation of inclusive research spaces where the participants can engage meaningfully. Thus, textile craft, papermaking, drawing, somatic movement, sound, and video converge and evolve in conversational objects, time-based performativity, participatory actions, and site-responsive installation.