Elisa Pardo Puch

Statement

Elisa Pardo Puch’s work often links autobiographical elements with the historical and social present and with the space that contains the pieces. The artist works with techniques that allow her to proceed in an intuitive, repetitive and meticulous manner – such as drawing or sewing – and uses the tension that arises between industrial elements and artisanal procedures. Through different formats, he explores the potential of disposable and poor materials to think and create from their own connotations, inverting or deactivating certain automatic associations between the material, its use and its desirability. Thus, Pardo Puch seeks out and extends these moments of repetition, of insistence, which often occur with the use of geometry. Common in his work is the grid, the careful line, the measured and exact perspective. In these physical processes, in the trance of his own making, Pardo Puch finds a self-absorbed distance where ideas emerge, conceiving the process itself as a form of channelling.

GlogauAIR Project

The objective of the project that I propose to develop at GlogauAIR will consist of continuing my drawing and textil practice, as I have done in my last works. I am especially interested in spaces that hide something inside. Also in the feeling of restlessness, fear and curiosity that we feel, especially in childhood, when we enter into an unknown place. In my artistic process, I start from personal experiences as the beginning of narratives. I formalize this narratives by combining materials such as drawing on paper, sor textiles. My work process during the months of residency will consist of creating several dioramas and models and of possible spaces. These models are small immersive pieces with simple visual illusionism: dark spaces into which we can enter and from there peek into “other worlds”, small stages, as if they were observatories from which to discover reality in unusual ways.

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CV Summary

EDUCATION

• 2017 Graduated in the Master’s Degree in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture by UAM and UCM.
• 2014 Graduated in Fine Arts at the UCM in CES Felipe II of Aranjuez.
• 2010 Diploma in Higher Design Studies at the School of Arts and Crafts number 10 in Madrid.
• 2009 Graphic Design. Duperré Art School in Paris.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2023 Metal Heart: lo que pesa. Departamento, Bilbao.
• 2023 Bajo el cielo de la noche. Boiler Room. Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia.
• 2023 A Strange Fairytale, solo project, Pradiauto Gallery, ArteSantander, Santander
• 2022 La Espera. Pradiauto Gallery, Madrid.

COLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

• 2024 Premio Miquel Casablancas, Barcelona. Spain.
• 2023 Una exposición oral, cur. Caterina Almirall, Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona.
• 2023 Garden Shed, Villa Bergerie, Huesca.
• 2022 [t su ́zamen ́vaksn], AIR Munich, Germany.
• 2021 Aragon Park. Aragon Park, Madrid.
• 2021 The tongue says loneliness. Pradiauto, Madrid.
• 2021 Volver al encuentro, Juan Canela, Centro de Residencias artísticas, Matadero Madrid.
• 2020 Una imagen que no duela ni cueste mirar. Sala de Arte Joven, Madrid, España.
• 2018 CALL XX. Galería Luis Adelantado. Valencia.
• 2018 XXIX Edición de los Circuitos de las Artes Plásticas de la Comunidad de Madrid. Sala de Arte Joven, Madrid.
• 2017 Futuro Presente, INJUVE, Madrid.
• 2016 Getxoarte, Bilbao.

RESIDENCIES AND PRIZES

• 2024 GlogauAIR, Berlin (January- June)
• 2023 Selected project in Open Call Visual Artist Miquel Casablancas 2023, Barcelona.
• 2023 Artist residency Villa Bergerie, residency supported by Pollock- Krasner Fundation, Huesca.
• 2022 Artist in Residence Munich, Germany (October- December).
• 2020 Matadero Art Residency Program, CRA Matadero, Madrid.

WORKSHOPS AND INTERVENTIONS

• 2023 Elisa Pardo Puch´s technique workshop. Practical program for reflection on textile art, its nature and processes, through the work of Sheila Hicks. Centre Pompidou, Málaga.
• 2023 Workshop with children from Public Nursery School E.I. La Jara, Madrid.
• 2017 Proyecto Chimenea, Tour of the exhibition “Ejercicios de resistencia” de Nicolás Robbio with Teresa Moro. La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
• 2017 Fanzine Workshop with the Leo Pardo collective with Debajo del Sombrero collective, at La Casa Encendida, Madrid.

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