Elsa Naude

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As a multi-faceted artist, Elsa Naude questions bodies, intimacies and (gendered) identity-producing phenomena. From printmaking to painting or sculpture, she explores multiple techniques as a way to mirror the diversity of our languages. She focuses on the study of words, and sometimes their absence, and contemplates what they respectively produce in our daily lives and behaviors.

Graduated in 2016 from EnsAD in printmaking (etching, screenprinting, lithography) and in 2012 from École Estienne in Illustration, her studies also led her to the Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro.

Elsa teaches printmaking, experimental publishing, drawing and visual communication to a variety of audiences and international students. Her teaching experience includes Paris (Paris College of Art), Strasbourg (École Métamorphoses) and Basel (Druckwerk atelier).

You can read here an interview about the strong link between her artistic practice and her pedagogy, around gender matters.

Shows

2024/03

the ones I don't have yet the words for • Solo show • Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg

2023/09

Eindruck • Druckwerk Warteck, Basel

2023/09

4th International Print Biennal • Yerevan, Armenia

2023/06

I never read • independent book fair, Basel

2022/12

Sal'Art • Mutinerie, Paris

2022/06

I never read • independent book fair, Basel

2022/06

Eindruck • Druckwerk Warteck, Basel

2021/11

Affiche ta pose • Giant mural (8 by 10 meters), Paris

2021/05

Open Doors • Bastion 14, Strasbourg

2021/01

Lusted Men - Photo Saint Germain festival • Paris

2019/05

Baise les Yeux - Porn Yourself festival • Mutinerie, Paris

2018/05

Pornografist - Porn Yourself festival • Mutinerie, Paris

2018/03

Queer Zine Fair - Queer Week festival • Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen

2017/07

Volumes #3 - Loud and Proud festival • Gaîté Lyrique, Paris

2017/03

Queer Zine Fair - Queer Week festival • Colonie, Paris

2017/03

Self-ish • Grands Voisins, Paris

2016/10

Relève • Crédit Municipal, Paris

2016/10

Söper – Mythologies personnelles • Wonder, Saint-Ouen

2016/10

Chaire Innovation et Savoir-̵faire • Ensad, Paris

2015/10

Floating Lotus • Batofar, Paris

Publications

2024

(Re)source fanzine • participatory book of emancipatory feminist resources, co-created with Hélène Bléhaut & Salomé Macquet

2023

4th International Print Biennal in Yerevan • Catalog

2021

Cover of REVU N°9

2021

Article in Artistic Representations of Economy: Exordium No.1 & 2 • Art faber, Presses académiques de Paris, EDMP

2020

Double page in REVU N°8

2018

Contes qui guérissent, contes qui aguerrissent • Les Éditions Culottées, collective book published thanks to a crowdfunding

2015

Double page in Manuel, revue érotique

2012

Contes du Mali • Collective multimedia book published by Tout Conte Fait

Prizes, grants

2022

Winner of The art of interiors online contest with the print Cou(sin)Rage, honorable mention • ArtRepreneur

2022

Winner of the Industrial art online contest with a print from The sleeping factory series • ArtRepreneur

2022

Young Artist grant • Druckwerk atelier, Basel

2015

Grant for Craft Excellence • Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation, Paris

Lectures

2021

Giving shape to deconstruction • Univeritas University, Rio de Janeiro — 3 hours lecture in portuguese

Clients

2024

Druckwerk atelier

2022

Dunod publishers

2021

Clichés Urbains

2020

L'Aaatelier, human rights activists

2018

Les Culottées du Bocal, popular education theatre company

2017

Éditions Hortus

Since 2016

Art faber

Education

2011-2016

Master's degree from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Printmaking, Paris — Very honorable mention

2015

Master thesis la mise en scène de l’Acte — Very honorable mention

2014-2015

Academic exchange in the Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro — Brazil

2009-2011

Diploma in Arts and Crafts from the Estienne ESAIG school, Paris — Specialization in Illustration

Graphic design and code
Salomé Macquet