AMANDA ELOSA
“We use the word love so carelessly that it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything.” Diane Ackerman
My practice traces love as something we perform, archive, and negotiate—through bodies, language, and shared rituals.
Working with text, image, and installation, I collect testimonies, letters, and objects that carry the residue of intimacy, then recompose them into visual and sonic narratives where humor and irony hold space for tenderness and contradiction.
I often build participatory formats—street processions, listening situations, and open calls—so that affection becomes a public encounter as much as a private sensation. These works treat romance not as an ideal, but as a social script shaped by time, place, and language, where pleasure, loss, and belonging can be spoken differently.
I see art as a communicative bridge and a careful container: a space where individual memories can circulate without exposing identities, and where collective narratives of desire and rupture can be reimagined as forms of connection and resistance.