Studio Visit: Elen Braga

The Need to Believe

In Antwerp, artist Elen Braga weaves together threads of personal history and contemporary politics to create work that confronts the complexities of identity and belonging. From her early years in Brazil’s sprawling metropolis to her transformative move to Belgium, Braga’s practice navigates the tensions between the multiple and overlapping registers of life. Her work, Salt Statues (2021), on show this fall at the exhibition ‘ENERGIA. Artistic presence in the B (…)