“Unlikely blue”

Elisa Stecca is a visual artist, designer, and author. A graduate in Fine Arts from FAAP, she also studied Law at the USP Law School. With a career spanning contemporary art, jewelry, and design, she deepened her knowledge of jewelry, drawing, and technique with Nelson Alvim, studied lost-wax casting at Roxi Design, and later, styling at Studio Berçot in Paris. She was nominated for a Cornick Fondation fellowship in the blown glass category, a technique she learned at the Pilchuck School in Seattle (USA). She worked as a fashion producer and editor for publications such as Folha de S.Paulo, Claudia, Vogue, and Marie Claire before dedicating herself entirely to artistic practice. Her visual research emphasizes the expanded concept of preciousness, combining goldsmithing techniques with an aesthetic experience developed in fashion and design.

In her artistic production, Stecca uses multiple media such as sculpture, installation, object, and performance to propose an expanded way of thinking about the body, the sacred, matter, and time. She has exhibited her work in important institutions such as the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM-SP), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles (MOCA), The Weisman Museum of Minnesota, and the Walker Art Center (MN, USA).

Among her main solo exhibitions, the following stand out: “Improvável”, Lemos de Sá Galeria, Belo Horizonte (2022); “Improvável”, Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, São Paulo (2022); “MAR”, MACS Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Sorocaba (2022); “Garimpo”, Lemos de Sá Galeria, Belo Horizonte (2021); “Silêncio Tátil”, MACS, Sorocaba (2019); “Torini”, Dpot Objeto, São Paulo (2018); “Oxum”, Dpot Objeto, São Paulo (2018); “Retroreflexo”, Museu do Objeto Brasileiro, São Paulo (2018); “Silêncio”, Museu de Arte Sacra de São Paulo (2017); and “Tempo Suspenso”, Claustro de la Basílica de La Puríssima Concepció, Barcelona, ​​Spain (2018).

She has participated in several group exhibitions, including: “Carpentry for All”, Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro (2017); “Arctic Landscape”, Dpot Objeto, São Paulo (2018); “Parallel”, Biennial Pavilion, São Paulo (2018); “Design Biennial”, Belo Horizonte (2014); “Boom Design”, São Paulo (2013); “Serrinha Art Festival”, Bragança Paulista (2006 and 2009); “Fake Nature”, MOCA Store, Los Angeles (1999); “Big Drop Gallery”, Soho, New York (1999); “As Crossing”, Graz, Austria (1997); “Pilchuck Gallery”, Seattle (1996); “Urban Connection”, Funarte RJ (1984); among others.

Her work has been published in national and international magazines such as Vogue Brazil, Elle, Arc Design, Collezioni (Italy), Arte y Joya, Condé Nast Traveller, and Wallpaper Magazine. She is also the author of the books *Hoje é o dia mais feliz da sua vida* (Today is the happiest day of your life) and *Pergunte ao Oráculo* (Ask the Oracle), both published by Matrix Editora. She works as a lecturer and teacher, having taught courses at institutions such as the Serrinha Art Festival, BOOM Design, Escola São Paulo, and Graz, Austria.

Representative galleries

Cultural Clash , São Paulo

Lemos de Sá , Belo Horizonte