Pia
Elizondo

Pia Elizondo

biography

Mexican photographer, Pía Elizondo is living in France since 2003.

After studying philosophy and having a self-taught approach to photography, she obtains a master’s degree from the École Nationale Supérieure de Photographie (Arles) in 2012.

Since the beginning of her photographic work in 1993, she has taken part in numerous individual and collective exhibitions throughout the world: France, Spain, Mexico, United States, South America (Brazil, Colombia, Puerto-Rico).
Pía Elizondo has published the book Primer cuadro, has participated in collective publications and has twice been awarded the SNC (Sistema Nacional de Creadores) grant in Mexico. She has also worked as a photography teacher in Mexico and recently in Arles for “Une rentrée en images” in a pinhole camera workshop. At the ENS Louis-Lumière, she works in FI and FPC in various photographic workshops.
Recently she completed a long-term project on the theme of borders. She has also published a book entitled Entre deux.
Her work is part of the collection of the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain in Paris and has been exhibited at the Flaere Gallery (London), Galeria LMI in Mexico City and Neg-Pos (Nimes).

Series

Death is a bride

Serie | Death is a bride is a journey through mourning, an inner journey through the shadows and lights that loss provokes, a walk with death and emptiness...

The Fall

Serie | “I’m very far from Syria and I’m trying to understand that cruelly absurd war. … I watch from a distance, completely powerless, through the unreal, numbing filters of video, television, cameras with an imposed distance that never tells what there really is.”

Songe d'oubli

Series | On the page of the notebook where I write, the dream projects, diffuse and imprecise, images that still retain the torpor and laxity of their own dream of oblivion...

Temps vertical

Serie | Temps vertical is a search for clues from my unconscious, as well as a search for light and poetic time...

Entre-deux

Serie | "Entre-deux" is a journey from the centre to the geographical and intimate boundaries, a long walk on the tight and precarious thread of my own borders, a harsh stay between light and shadow.

Mexique, Mar

Serie | I take pictures of the seaside as a place full of paradoxes...

Los pasos de la memoria

Série | FOR YOU, CITY, the half-open lips of snails and their invisible swells, my obsidian-tipped skull, my intact teeth and a big, marbled eye, to judge what trembles behind every mask...

Jungla de asfalto, 1998

Serie | To take pictures is kind of a predation action. Wasn’t I satisfying this human craving for slaughter, without the unpleasant consequences of guilt?

Death is a bride

Serie | Death is a bride is a journey through mourning, an inner journey through the shadows and lights that loss provokes, a walk with death and emptiness...

The Fall

Serie | “I’m very far from Syria and I’m trying to understand that cruelly absurd war. … I watch from a distance, completely powerless, through the unreal, numbing filters of video, television, cameras with an imposed distance that never tells what there really is.”

Songe d'oubli

Series | On the page of the notebook where I write, the dream projects, diffuse and imprecise, images that still retain the torpor and laxity of their own dream of oblivion...

Temps vertical

Serie | Temps vertical is a search for clues from my unconscious, as well as a search for light and poetic time...

Entre-deux

Serie | "Entre-deux" is a journey from the centre to the geographical and intimate boundaries, a long walk on the tight and precarious thread of my own borders, a harsh stay between light and shadow.

Mexique, Mar

Serie | I take pictures of the seaside as a place full of paradoxes...

Los pasos de la memoria

Série | FOR YOU, CITY, the half-open lips of snails and their invisible swells, my obsidian-tipped skull, my intact teeth and a big, marbled eye, to judge what trembles behind every mask...

Jungla de asfalto, 1998

Serie | To take pictures is kind of a predation action. Wasn’t I satisfying this human craving for slaughter, without the unpleasant consequences of guilt?

Death is a bride

Serie | Death is a bride is a journey through mourning, an inner journey through the shadows and lights that loss provokes, a walk with death and emptiness...

The Fall

Serie | “I’m very far from Syria and I’m trying to understand that cruelly absurd war. … I watch from a distance, completely powerless, through the unreal, numbing filters of video, television, cameras with an imposed distance that never tells what there really is.”

Songe d'oubli

Series | On the page of the notebook where I write, the dream projects, diffuse and imprecise, images that still retain the torpor and laxity of their own dream of oblivion...

Temps vertical

Serie | Temps vertical is a search for clues from my unconscious, as well as a search for light and poetic time...

Entre-deux

Serie | "Entre-deux" is a journey from the centre to the geographical and intimate boundaries, a long walk on the tight and precarious thread of my own borders, a harsh stay between light and shadow.

Mexique, Mar

Serie | I take pictures of the seaside as a place full of paradoxes...

Los pasos de la memoria

Série | FOR YOU, CITY, the half-open lips of snails and their invisible swells, my obsidian-tipped skull, my intact teeth and a big, marbled eye, to judge what trembles behind every mask...

Jungla de asfalto, 1998

Serie | To take pictures is kind of a predation action. Wasn’t I satisfying this human craving for slaughter, without the unpleasant consequences of guilt?

Interviews

Interview of Pia Elizondo
Institute for Creative Exchange
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2020

Meeting with the photographer Pía Elizondo, talking about her latest work : Death is a Bride, her creative process, and her views on photography.

Lecture with Pia Elizondo
La Virreina Centre de la Imatge
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2017

Meeting between Pía Elizondo and Mònica Roselló at La Virreina, Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona in 2017.

Interview of Pia Elizondo
Boutographies
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2010

Interview of Pía Elizondo on the occasion of her exhibition “Mar” during the off festival of Boutographies in Montpellier in 2010.

Books

The Fall

Self publishing - 2017

Entre-deux

Self publishing - 2016

Songe d'oubli

Arnaud Bizalion - 2015

Los pasos de la memoria

DGE Equilibrista - 2020

The Fall

Self publishing - 2017

Entre-deux

Self publishing - 2016

Songe d'oubli

Arnaud Bizalion - 2015

Los pasos de la memoria

DGE Equilibrista - 2020

The Fall

Self publishing - 2017

Entre-deux

Self publishing - 2016

Songe d'oubli

Arnaud Bizalion - 2015

Los pasos de la memoria

DGE Equilibrista - 2020