During her student years, Elisa began producing images that were quickly featured in the Dutch magazine Provider, founded by Lisa White and Manon Schaap. After graduating, she embarked on a long-term collaboration with the music magazine Vox Pop and the daily newspaper Libération, illustrating numerous major articles. It was during this time that she began to explore collage and the manipulation of symbols, techniques that would become central to her practice.
Elisa then pursued collaborations with Le Nouvel Observateur and M, le magazine du Monde. However, feeling constrained in her role as a press illustrator, she decided in 2015 to venture out as a freelance art director, seeking to undertake more ambitious and diverse projects.
In 2017, Elisa founded Studio Convergences, a creative and animation studio. Through her personal practice of collage combined with animation and stop motion techniques, the studio aims to bring a sensitive and embodied perspective to the digital realm. Hermès and Weston were among the first clients drawn to this innovative vision. For the past seven years, Studio Convergences has remained an exceptional space for creative expression, showcasing craftsmanship and traditional fabrication techniques in an increasingly high-tech world.
Today, this site catalogues her study works and experiments, reflecting Elisa Valenzuela's journey and evolution in her artistic work.
Exhibitions :
Coch-coch : group show Espace Richelieu, 2013
Out of print : group show at Le Coeur Paris Avril 2019
Out of print : at Iso Amsterdam September 2019 during Unseen Amsterdam