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Eleonora Gugliotta (b. 1989, Capo d’Orlando, Italy) was drawn to the expressive potential of photography from the very beginning of her academic studies in Palermo. Photography became a means of exploring languages and techniques beyond the painting she had initially pursued at Art High School and those associated with Graphic Design. During her Master’s degree in Decoration at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she expanded her research into new forms of expression, including performance and installation, while increasingly working with organic materials connected to human experience, elements of corporeality, and relational and affective objects, often inviting viewers to engage intimately with the work.
Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses installations, environmental interventions, sensitive environments, interactive surfaces, photographic and video projects, performative and relational works, as well as two-dimensional pieces.
Gugliotta’s research explores the intimate and profound dimensions of human experience, reflecting on processes of transformation and adaptation, the relationship between humans and nature—with its tensions and criticalities—and established social constructs and patterns of thought, including those surrounding the female condition. Through a practice that often employs provocation and irony, she engages viewers in sensory and destabilising experiences, encouraging a critical perspective on the contradictions and injustices of contemporary society.
Natural filaments—wool, human hair and body hair—are recurring materials in her work, transformed into signs and traces, like lines drawn through space. Stretched, layered or deposited onto surfaces, these elements become points of connection and junction, extensions of the body and visible traces of its passage through space.
Throughout her career, Gugliotta has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions across museums, institutions, cultural centres, art fairs, and national and international events. In 2015, she held her first solo exhibition at the former studio of Piero Manzoni in Milan; in 2017, she was invited to participate in a workshop at the Venice Biennale, and in 2018 she presented a performance at MACRO Asilo in Rome. In 2019, she was awarded the Paratissima Talent Prize in Turin, followed by two solo exhibitions at ARTiglieria in 2020 and 2021. In 2023, she participated in Biennale Sessions at the Venice Biennale with a project dedicated to the protests in Iran, subsequently presented at Fondazione Sozzani in Milan. That same year, she held a solo exhibition at the Norman Tower in Castel di Ieri.
From 2022 to 2024, she founded and directed Atelier Meno 1, an independent art space in Milan dedicated to the production and presentation of her own projects and those of other artists. During the same period, she taught Graphic and Pictorial Disciplines at several Art High Schools in Milan.
In 2026, following her relocation to Australia, she returned to Capo d’Orlando to present Ciò che resta (“What Remains”), a retrospective exhibition hosted by Spazio LOC – Laboratorio Orlando Contemporaneo, tracing the development of her artistic research through works and projects created over the years.
She currently lives and works in Perth, Western Australia.
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