Elisa Bergel Melo, born in Caracas in 1989, is a visual artist who uses photography as her main medium. She
studied at the New England School of Photography (United States), GrisArt (Spain) and obtains her degree
with emphasis in photography at the Veritas University in Costa Rica. Her work begins at the idea of
mobility; she is interested in thinking about distance as a malleable concept that can be reinterpreted
through the traditional uses of photography, using its formats and means of reproduction as a methodology.
Using archives (her own or found) as well as photographs taken without cameras, she develops installations,
video sculptures and collages, which seek to reveal new intentions of the same content through accumulation
and repetition. Bergel Melo has participated in multiple exhibitions in Latin America, the Caribbea, the
United States, and most recently in the inaugural exhibition at the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger in Basel.
In addition she has been part of international residency programs like SOMA Summer in 2016 in Mexico City.
She currently lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.