Elle Pérez

Elle Pérez

BornNationalityBased In
1989AmericanNew York City, Brooklyn
Biography

Elle Pérez is a photographer who creates deeply meditative and intimate portraits of their peers and equally beguiling tableaux of landscapes. Drawing on the traditions of American Landscape painting and photography and the specific practices of photographers such as Ansel Adams, William Eggleston, Peter Hujar and Nan Goldin, Pérez has an innate ability to capture the poetic sensibility of people and places. Playing with focus, crop and colour grading, the images tenderly navigate the intricacies of queer relationships, the dynamics of chosen families and the resonance of natural environments. Shooting both in New York City and in woodlands, lakes and boglands, the contents of their images shift dramatically, from domestic portraits of lovers to knotted tree roots or disused door frames. What remains a constant, however, is an absolute adoration of material surfaces. Commenting on this fascination, Pérez states, “surfaces have the ability to contain the traces of an experience”, and this search for raw emotional authenticity permeates Pérez’s oeuvre as they capture and uncover traces of intimacy. ...

Selected Artworks
Palm
slip curve
Elle Pérez
slip curve, 2021
42 x 34cm
ground
wet stone
Elle Pérez
wet stone, 2020
69 x 53cm
Ash
host
open ground
Elle Pérez
open ground, 2021
69 x 53cm
habitat
Elle Pérez
habitat, 2019
152 x 118cm
Vincent
Elle Pérez
Vincent, 2021
113 x 88cm
bodega flower shop
Elle Pérez
bodega flower shop, 2020
42 x 53cm
wetlands
Elle Pérez
wetlands, 2020
58 x 46 x 5cm
night bloom
Elle Pérez
night bloom, 2019
50 x 44cm
slip swell
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