Elisa Cappellari is a photographer born in Bahia, Brazil (1993) and raised in Trentino-South Tyrol, a region in northern Italy. After graduating with a degree in Graphic and Multimedia Communication in Verona (IT), she went on to study Art and Photography at the KABK - Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (NL). 


Through photography, she explores the contrasts that define her own identity and that of many other living beings, capturing them in a variety of settings. Her documentary images explore an hybridity embedded in animals, plants, landscapes and objects, and reveal a persistent dialogue between the wild and the artificial in their being. A natural world frequently framed by the man-made unfolds around them, just as the artificial reveals itself to be quietly inhabited by a latent wildness. Within this tension, gestures of apparent freedom disclose forms of subordination and vice versa. From this perspective, structures of power and assigned roles lose their rigidity, dissolving hierarchies and revealing the world to be an unpredictable mixture of forces. Elisa embraces this tension as a space for exploration, creating metaphorical works that prompt reflections on the nature of things in contemporary society and on how the familiar and the unfamiliar coexist within every fragment of it.