Elisa Terroba

Elisa Terroba is an artist born in Arriate, Málaga in 1986. She is dedicated to dismantling language and books to create new structures and forms that generate discourse and visual poetry. The artist is interested in the deconstruction and subversion of traditional narrative structures to create new mutant forms that reflect the hybrid reality of today's digital society. Terroba uses different media and supports, from physical objects to digital formats, to create her works. Her books, transformed into objects and visual poetry, narrate things different from their original arguments, expanding and revealing the infinite variables of their content. The artist investigates the relationship between books and today's digital society, where books lose their status as an extension of memory and imagination and become reified objects. Through her work, Terroba reflects on how human memory has shifted to other media and how this has affected the book as a physical object. Elisa Terroba's work is inspired by avant-garde movements and contemporary digital art, and establishes a dialogue between past and present. Her visual language is influenced by elements of industrial design and a highly polished technical approach. The artist dedicates half of her artistic work to building her own tools and seeking the best technical resolution to realize her ideas. Elisa Terroba's works are part of the collections of important institutions such as the MUSAC Documentation Center in León, the National Library and the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, and the Antonio Pérez Foundation Contemporary Art Center in Cuenca.