Elisa Salas (Mexico, 1987)

Elisa Salas is a plastic artist whose artistic proposal is inspired by the cursed poets of the 20th century and their dream of releasing the words from books. Salas creates images and sculptures from text (usually her poems or tweets) by varying the saturation of words to narrate the shadows and lights. She uses a combination of plastic and digital techniques such as classic charcoal drawings, 3dpen calligraphic sculptures, bronze sculptures and digital fine art prints. She has collaborated with brands such as Montblanc, Kipling and Mexicráneos and has exhibited her art in places of international interest such as The Museum of Broken Relationships in Los Angeles with Frank Warren and his Post Secret project; the New York Poetry Festival 2017; at Wynwood Miami during Art Basel 2016; La Fábrica de la Aurora in San Miguel de Allende, San José del Cabo Art District; and other important cities of her native country Mexico, such as Monterrey, Tulum, Todos Santos, La Paz, Polanco, Centro de la ciudad de México and Oaxaca. At an international level, the writer also exhibited her work in Washington D.C. after winning a contest on the subject of art and disability. A sensitive human being as she is, she was recognized by The United Nations and The Human Rights Commission for boosting the change of Mexico's electoral manual in order to include and to respect the right to vote of people with disabilities. She has also been winner of philosophy and drawing competitions for brands like Scribe and and in Accademic environments. Since 2021 her chronics are being published in a digital magazine named SPES. In 2017, she was named by a journalist as the most important developer of the calligram in Mexico.