Eliza Trefaș
April — June 2025
→ Prague
Eliza Trefas works in dance, performance and visual arts. She explores practices and performances that could bridge visible and invisible forms of life through the body. She is interested in how bodies get constantly composed, either entering socio-cultural traps, or being affectively modulated by the environment and larger world events. In some works she attempts at fixing ills through poetic perspectives or open states of embodied poetry. She is looking for practices that allow meaning and elaborate forms of healing to appear both personally and collectively, towards a more subjective and intimate process with illness or emotional distress, creating a performative distance and entering in a relational understanding between these and the world. In public space works, she overlaps social and artistic conventions to open a certain complexity and sensibility in the ways we inhabit landscapes, urban environments, world. In 2022, together with Florin Flueras, she opened Somn (Sleep), an art space for deep and relaxed departures, for falling asleep to rigid institutional conventions and expectations.
The residency is organised in partnership with Meet Factory Prague.