Layered is the experience of one whose blood carries the sun, water, and air of an elsewhere, and whose body holds the love of here.

Elisa Cappellari is a photographer born in Bahia, Brazil, in 1993, and raised in Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, a region in northern Italy. After graduating with a degree in Graphic and Multimedia Communication, she went on to study Art and Photography at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK) in The Hague, Netherlands. Through documentary photography, she investigates the opposites that inhabit her identity, tracing them across diverse scenarios that orbit human life. Her images explore a hybridity embedded in the nature of things — living beings, landscapes, and objects — and reveal a persistent dialogue between the wild and the domesticated. Around them unfolds a “natural” that is frequently framed by the artificial, or moments in which gestures of apparent freedom disclose subtle forms of subordination. Within this perspective, structures of power and assigned roles lose their rigidity, dissolving clear hierarchies and exposing the world as a continuous coexistence of tensions. Elisa embraces these tensions as a space of inquiry, creating works that invite reflections on the state of nature and identity in contemporary society — often suspended between what feels familiar and what remains foreign.