Artist Statement/ Biography

Elena Bajo is a Spanish-American artist, educator, choreographer and founder of the P-A-D Project, Wonder Valley, in the California desert, dedicated to climate activism where artworks and discursive performances are developed. Her multidisciplinary art practice weaves both personal and political elements into materials and movements that generate alternative narratives. She investigates and addresses ideas of space, nature, and the body as a socio-political entity that questions their relationship with the ecologies of capital, using a multidisciplinary, ecofeminist and non binary approach. In the last few years her work has focused on the investigation of ancestral practices, and the forms of access through active interaction with communities, historical, social, political conditions, and its relationship with the natural environment. She is actually working on an ecological interdisciplinary project in which medicinal plants are proposed as the narrators of their own ecological conscioussness, as an alternative source and tool of knowledge and reconnection of the human being with nature.

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Elena Bajo is a Spanish-American artist, educator, choreographer and founder of the P-A-D Project, Wonder Valley, in the California desert, dedicated to climate activism where artworks and discursive performances are developed. Her multidisciplinary art practice weaves both personal and political elements into materials and movements that generate alternative narratives and involve ideas of nature and the body as a social entity that questions its relationship to ecologies of capital. She works in performance, sculpture, workshops, dance, painting and video. She received an MFA from Central Saint Martins, (London, 2005) and MA in Genetic Architecture from ESARQ (Barcelona), studied Laban and Bartenieff Movement at TanzFabrik, Berlin Contemporary Dance Center and co-founded the temporary art project Exhibition (New York, 2009). She has presented performances, exhibitions, taught and lectured internationally. She also received support, grants and residencies from Rauschenberg Emergency Medical Grants, 2022; Matadero Madrid Residency Center, A/CE ES at the European Ceramics Center, EKWC, NL, 2021; Hopper Prize 2020; NYContemporary Art Foundation Emergency Grant 2019; Botín Foundation, Visual Arts Fellowship Award, ES 2018; Audemars Piguet Award, ARCO Madrid, in 2017. Future exhibits: Museum Without Walls curated by Mathieu Copeland, Ibiza, ES; Swept Away, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY; Biotopias, Las Palmas, ES