Elisabeth Nembrini starts off the July window of Kalo Mina. The artist collects and works with personal and collective images from various sources. After experimenting with photo technical processes she creates images in various medias that remind us of visual realities. Elisabeth Nembrini transforms photographs by embroidering, perforating and enlarging by the means of projection. Or she takes the photo chemical processing literally to extremes by applying glass pearls as a substitute for the imaging silver particles.

 

The relationship between humans and animals plays a central role in her practise. The symbolic acquisition of animalistic attributes can be found ever since in the in art and cultural history of mankind. Early cave drawings already demonstrate how the history of mankind is accompanied by animals. Whether wild or domesticated animals, the human beings stand not only above the animals, but live with and from them. Through shamanic rituals and religious traditions the power and the magic of the animals was submitted and occupied. 

 

The mainstay of the work 'Barbès Rochechouart' piece was a found advertisement which promised quick aid for a plethora of situations. The magician pompously praises his skilled capabilities to solve love, financial, health or family problems–despite the numerous typing errors. And the black pearls and the white blanket refer for their part to magical and occult meanings in other cultures.

 

Elisabeth Nembrini lives and works in St.Gallen. She completed her studies at the School of Fine Arts in Lucerne and has received numerous prizes. Many of her works have been commissioned for the public space.