Elena Damiani

Elena Damiani (born 1979) is a Peruvian visual artist, known for sculpture, collage, installation art, video, and photography. Her work explores cartography, geology, time, space, and archaeology. Damiani lives in Lima, and previously lived in London, and Copenhagen.

In 2013, she married a Goldsmiths classmate and Danish artist, Erik Bendix, and they have one child. They had lived in Copenhagen for many years, and moved to Lima in 2016. There is a comparison that happens between the landscape photography; there are differences between the historical U.S. scientist’s interpretation of the land, versus a modern point of view of someone from the local area. Museo Rufino Tamayo, in Mexico City; and Museo de Arte de Lima.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions 2007, Sites, Galería Vértice, Lima, Peru 2016, Sedimentos: un conjunto de restos (English: Sediments: An Assemblage of Remains), solo exhibition, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico 2023, Zenith, Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York City, New York, United States