The Route, 2024
Elia Nurvista explores a wide range of art mediums with an interdisciplinary approach and often intersects with the politics of food. Through food, she scrutinizes power and social and economic inequalities. Using several mediums from workshops, study groups, publications, and site-specific, performative and video installations, she explores the social implications of the food system to critically address the wider issues such as ecology, gender, class and geopolitics.
In 2015 she initiated "Bakudapan", a food study group, with colleagues from various disciplines, conducting research on food within the socio-political-cultural context. She is also part of "Struggles for Sovereignty" the solidarity platform on Land, Water, Farming, Food which aims to build lasting solidarity between groups in Indonesia. She has participated in several exhibitions including Sharjah Biennial 15 in Sharjah (2023), Dhaka Art Summit in Dhaka (2020), Karachi Biennale in Karachi (2019) and ‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’, at QAGOMA, Brisbane (2018) among others. She also curated Jogja Biennale Equator VI; Indonesia with Oceania (2021), ADAM LAB at TPAC (Taipei Performing Arts Center) with Transient Collective (2020). In 2023, she was granted the Artistic Chair from Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, France and became a fellowship researcher. She lives and works between Yogyakarta and Berlin.