Elisa Bertaglia

Elisa Bertaglia is an artist in Brooklyn who works across painting, ceramics, and site-specific installations, exploring how symbols lose meaning in contemporary life through the lens of oriental philosophy.

Elisa Bertaglia moves between painting, ceramics, wall drawings, and site-specific works, investigating how symbols break down in contemporary life. She analyzes the moment when meaning collapses—what she calls the semantic threshold where signifier and message no longer connect. Her work draws on oriental philosophy to develop her own vision of time and space. Literature and cinema anchor her practice, evident in the titles she gives her pieces. Recent work examines threshold and rest as transformative states, continuing a series that includes Hic Sunt Dracones and The Dance.