Elsa Naude questions bodies, intimacies and (gendered) identity-producing phenomena. Focusing on the study of language and what it produces in our behavior, she explores the harmful mechanisms made invisible by our socialization. Offering a personal narrative inscribed in her situated experience, she celebrates non-conformity within a practice of joy, revolution and kindness.
Graduated in 2016 from EnsAD in printmaking (etching, screenprinting, lithography) and in 2012 from Ecole Estienne in Illustration, her studies also led her to the Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro.
Elsa taught printmaking, graphic design, experimental publishing and drawing, between Paris (Paris College of Art), Strasbourg (Metamorphoses School) and Basel (Druckwerk workshop) with international students.
You can read here an interview about the strong link between her artistic practice and her pedagogy, around gender matters.
I never read • independent book fair, Basel
Eindruck • 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
Cover of REVU N°9
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 published by Les Éditions Culottées
Double page in Manuel, revue érotique
Contes du Mali, multimedia book published by Tout Conte Fait
Young Artist grant, Druckwerk atelier, Basel
Grant from the Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation for Craft Excellence, Paris
Dunod publishers
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