Public-Private

Public-Private is a body of work of digital enhanced still images which Elena CoIogni has been working on for the past few months, while travelling, mostly between Italy and England. The body of work is the beginning of a visual diary of her perception of environments she deal with: public and private spaces and buildings, within which her own role in relation to others’ changes. As much as the relationship between private-intimate spaces and public-institutional spaces, this investigation involves the positioning of herself as artist and subject looking from within or outside the context. In this sense her position (and therefore her view) in relation to the country she originally came from changes continuously according to the ever shifting terms of the relationship. The superimposition of two different environments allows Cologni to create a space in between, a sort of non belonging space where she locates herself.