The Team
The Art Director Elise Billiard is a French Anthropologist by training and a curator by profession. She worked for the Ecoc Valletta 2018 as the art director and coordinator of an important strand of projects related to migration and exile questioning the production of the figure of the migrants and the modes of resistance that have been invented. Her projects included Utopian Nights festival, Rima, Subjective maps, and finally Exiled Homes. As anthropologist she lectured at the university of Malta for more than a decade and published extensively on the topics such as urban public spaces and social cohesion, or national identity and culinary invented traditions, material culture and visual anthropology.
The Photographer David Pisani’s photographic work can be summed up as a relentless pursuit of the sublime and the erotic. He is the author of an extensive photographic essay on the city of Valletta and the red-light district of Strait Street entitled ‘Vanishing Valletta’ which in the year 2000 was included in the permanent collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. His urban reportage defies the obvious graphic nature of photography in favour of a more complex reading of emotionally charged images. In 1998 he returned to the theme of the body with a more explicit treatment of the themes of sex, decay and death and produced a seminal body of work entitled “EVERY-BODY” developing a unique photographic process that causes the image to alter itself over time as does the human body that grows old, dies and decays. His most recent work includes two photographic essays on the war zones in Cyprus and the city of Kyoto in Japan. He is a fanatical darkroom printer with more than 25 years experience in commercial and fine art printing.
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