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.
Assise européennes de lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes • Palais de la Musique et des Congrès, Strasbourg
IMPRESSION 2024/25 • Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen (Switzerland)
Eindruck • Druckwerk Warteck, Basel
Et si on changeait? • La Serre s’expose, Neugartheim
Sens Dessus Dessous • Séchoir, Mulhouse
the ones I don't have yet the words for • Solo show • Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg
Eindruck • Druckwerk Warteck, Basel
4th International Print Biennal • Yerevan, Armenia
I never read • independent book fair, Basel
Sal'Art • Mutinerie, Paris
I never read • independent book fair, Basel
Eindruck • Druckwerk Warteck, Basel
Affiche ta pose • Giant mural (8 by 10 meters), Paris
Open Doors • Bastion 14, Strasbourg
Lusted Men - Photo Saint Germain festival • Paris
Baise les Yeux - Porn Yourself festival • Mutinerie, Paris
Pornografist - Porn Yourself festival • Mutinerie, Paris
Queer Zine Fair - Queer Week festival • Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen
Volumes #3 - Loud and Proud festival • Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
Queer Zine Fair - Queer Week festival • Colonie, Paris
Self-ish • Grands Voisins, Paris
Relève • Crédit Municipal, Paris
Söper – Mythologies personnelles • Wonder, Saint-Ouen
Chaire Innovation et Savoir-̵faire • Ensad, Paris
Floating Lotus • Batofar, Paris
(Re)source fanzine • participatory book of emancipatory feminist resources, co-created with Hélène Bléhaut & Salomé Macquet
4th International Print Biennal in Yerevan • Catalog
Cover of REVU N°9
Article in Artistic Representations of Economy: Exordium No.1 & 2 • Art faber, Presses académiques de Paris, EDMP
Double page in REVU N°8
Contes qui guérissent, contes qui aguerrissent • Les Éditions Culottées, collective book published thanks to a crowdfunding
Double page in Manuel, revue érotique
Contes du Mali • Collective multimedia book published by Tout Conte Fait
Winner of The art of interiors online contest with the print Cou(sin)Rage, honorable mention • ArtRepreneur
Winner of the Industrial art online contest with a print from The sleeping factory series • ArtRepreneur
Young Artist grant • Druckwerk atelier, Basel
Grant for Craft Excellence • Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation, Paris
Giving shape to deconstruction • Univeritas University, Rio de Janeiro — 3 hours lecture in portuguese
Druckwerk atelier
Dunod publishers
Clichés Urbains
L'Aaatelier, human rights activists
Les Culottées du Bocal, popular education theatre company
Éditions Hortus
Art faber
Master's degree from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Printmaking, Paris — Very honorable mention
Master thesis la mise en scène de l’Acte — Very honorable mention
Academic exchange in the Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro — Brazil
Diploma in Arts and Crafts from the Estienne ESAIG school, Paris — Specialization in Illustration