Elena Mazzi was the first Artist Researcher in residence at UmArts in April 2024 funded by the Italian Council, in partnership with Maria Luna Nobile, Associate Professor at Umeå School of Architecture. Elena Mazzi’s practice is based on the examination of specific territories where she reinterprets the cultural and natural heritage of places, interweaving stories, facts and fantasies handed down by local communities, in order to suggest possible resolutions to the man-nature-culture conflict. Her somewhat anthropological working method favour a holistic approach aimed at repairing the rifts that occur in society. Mazzi studied at the University of Siena and the IUAV in Venice, after which she trained at the Royal Institute of Art (Konsthögskolan) in Stockholm. She is currently undertaking a practice based PhD at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts à la Villa Arson in Nice, France.
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