Dr Eloise Fornieles is an artist and British Academy postdoctoral fellow. Fornieles’ practice-led PhD from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, investigated the role of the voice in the generation of queer space and alternative gender narratives. Fornieles has delivered papers at the Slade School of Fine Art, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art, The Hungarian University of Fine Art, and was awarded a bursary to carry out her research at Yale University in 2020. Fornieles has performed, screened and exhibited in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas, Athens, Madrid, Lausanne, Paris, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, London, and Beijing.
Her practice-led, fine art research project explores the intersection of three historical expressions of political protest in Rome: the satirical poetry of Catullus, the ‘Congregation of Wits’ and the pioneering feminist collective Rivolta Femminile. These apparently diverse historical practices and traditions are linked by the opportunities they provided for queer, working class, and marginalized subjects to speak to—and against— the extant structures of power.
Eloise Fornieles is based in Rome. You can contact her at e.fornieles@bsrome.it
