meca

march 20 - march 24, 2024

booth m07

casa de los vitrales

c. 19 de marzo 113, santo domingo, república dominicana

A solo booth featuring works by Elisa Bergel Melo. A meticulous exploration of movement, time, and the transformative dynamics encapsulated within the tautological essence of photography. Her astute engagement with the symbiotic relationship between reality and memory manifests in each of the artworks presented at the fair.

Through her work, Bergel Melo navigates the profound intricacies of being an immigrant, unraveling the emotional dichotomy inherent in the diasporic journey. The liminal space between the familiar and the foreign becomes the fertile ground upon which her lens captures the subtle, yet substantial, nuances of displacement, encouraging us to think about what it feels like to be disconnected from our birth home and searching for identity in a new place.

Bergel Melo's exploration transcends the confines of mere documentation, emerging as an enlightening inquiry into the existential dimensions of the immigrant experience.


-curated by homework.

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artist

  • Elisa Bergel Melo

    Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1989, Elisa Bergel Melo is a visual artist deeply rooted in the discipline of photography. She attended the New England School of Photography in the United States and GrisArt in Spain, eventually earning her degree with a strong emphasis on photography from the Universidad Veritas in Costa Rica

    Bergel Melo's work is characterized by an earnest exploration of the inherent potentials latent within the photographic medium. Her thematic preoccupations traverse the realms of temporal and kinetic documentation, scrutinizing their metamorphosis through the lens of tautology. Concurrently, she probes the direct nexus between the photographic representation and reality, nuanced by an intricate interplay with memory – two forces converging within the visual composition.

    She has participated in numerous exhibitions across the Americas, the Caribbean, and the United States. Notably, Bergel Melo featured prominently in the inaugural exhibition at the esteemed Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger in Basel, Switzerland.

    Further contributing to her artistic growth, she has completed various international residency programs, most notably the SOMA Summer in 2016 in Mexico City.

    She recently exhibited with Casa Quien, a distinguished platform for emerging art from the Dominican Republic, during the 20th edition of Zona Maco Foto in CDMX in 2024.

    Bergel Melo currently lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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