Author: Elma Riza

Elma Riza French visual artist – improviser and performer. Works and lives in Berlin since 2007. Graduated from the Kunsthochschule Berlin – KHB in 2012. Between 2007 and 2011 she worked mostly with video and photography. Then she started to study improvisation - instant composition with different choreographers and performers (Fanny de Chaillé, Jean-Jacques Sanchez, Eva Burghardt, Yuko Kaseki/Isak Immanuel, William Bilwa Costa, Sten Rudstrom, Rosalind Crisp...). In march 2014, she started Imprévu Berlin – Interdisciplinary Platform for Instant Composition. Besides, she developed a series of solo installations/performance, recherche which make the connection between her work in Instant composition and in Visual Arts. And open her research to collaboration with other artist, dancer and performer. Whether in her photographic, video or performative work, her starting point is always the space. The space as a point of departure for visual research, with omnipresent consciousness of the location of the body in space. In addition, the research creates a sensitive experience triggered by the moment and everything that is included in this situation. The moment, which can be experienced in a active or a contemplative manner: fleeting or suspended moments near from infinity.