I Used to Kiss a Lot is born from a series of self-portraits, materialized in a life-size sculpture of a bed. In it, photography becomes a means of reconnecting with the body through destruction and reconstruction, in hope of feeling a new kind of love when alone in a foreign place.
Elisa Azevedo (b. 1996, Porto, Portugal), lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.
BA in Multimedia Art — Photography, by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Post- Graduation in Contemporary Photography Discourses by the same institution, Master in Photography by ÉCAL.
Her work lives by a sensible approach to reality, without any constraint to the time, space or subject it inhabits.
Themes in her photography are transitivity, identity, gender, sexuality, absence and the body. Selected Solo and Collective Exhibitions include: Corpo, Dentro (Uma Lulik, 2023), Just Believe (Uma Lulik, 2022), Erro 417: Expectativa Falhada (Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2022), Rivva (Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira/Galeria Saco Azul — Maus Hábitos, 2021/2022), Em plena luz (Bienal de Fotografia do Porto/Fotofestiwal Poland, 2021) & Body to Body (Arquivo Municipal Fotográfico de Lisboa, 2017).
