A research that does not seek to provide answers, but instead continually brings us back to the one question that perhaps each of us should have the courage to ask:

Who are we when no one is watching?

MY ARTISTIC RESEARCH

AN INVITATION TO BECOME OUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF

My artistic research begins with what I consider the question: Who are we, really?

Who are we when roles, expectations, labels, judgments, and the need for approval—beliefs that have shaped us since childhood—fall away? Who are we when we stop identifying with the definitions we have learned to inhabit?

Every work I create grows from this inquiry. It is not a search for a universal answer, because I do not believe one exists. There is only the authentic answer that each individual can discover within themselves.

My artistic practice is an invitation to seek the most authentic version of ourselves—an identity free from limiting definitions.

It is much like trying to explain what love is: we can describe it, but we cannot contain it within a definition. It can only be experienced, listened to, and allowed to flow.

For this reason, I have developed a symbolic and performative language inspired by the meaning of Eastern artistic philosophies and reinterpreted through a contemporary practice.

Iconic and immediately recognizable human figures frequently appear in my works. They symbolize constructed identity—everything we believe ourselves to be because the world has taught us to recognize ourselves through images, roles, and expectations.

It is precisely this image that I choose to break.

I do not paint the fracture. I create it.

I physically break both the support and the image through an unpredictable performative gesture. For me, breaking represents interrupting everything that continually attempts to define who we are. The fracture becomes the moment when control begins to dissolve and something more authentic can finally emerge.The crack is never designed. It simply happens. Every fracture is unique and impossible to reproduce.

The same is true of the organic patterns that emerge through water and vibration during my creative process, inspired by Japanese artistic traditions and the principles of cymatics. These unrepeatable traces arise naturally, flowing into existence just as emotions do—emotions that we so often attempt to suppress.

Perhaps it is only when we stop trying to control, explain, and define ourselves that we truly begin to be. Every fracture inevitably creates a void.

Where many see only absence, I recognize the possibility of creating value.

This is why I reconstruct my works with gold: not as decoration, but as a symbol of the conscious decision to assign meaning to what we have lived through. Not to erase the fracture, but to make it an integral part of our story.

Mirrors also recur throughout my work. They invite viewers to recognize themselves and to question their own reflection, reminding us that the way we look at the world is often a reflection of the way we look at ourselves.

Each work arises from the meeting of gesture, matter, symbol, and transformation. Painting, performance, tattooing, and participatory artistic experiences all belong to the same language: different expressions of a single artistic investigation.

ARTISTIC CURRICULUM

NAME: Elisabetta Zini

NATIONALITY: Italian

ACTIVITY: Visual artist, nurse, and tattoo artist

ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH

-Material-based works on marmorina
-Mixed techniques and material experimentation

-Manual interventions and layered processes

-Fracture of the support as a performative gesture

unique, non-reproducible works

-Integration of cymatics as a practice for the visual translation of emotions through sound, vibration, and frequency, combined with a contemporary reinterpretation of Eastern artistic philosophies.

PROJECTS

Creator of S(oul)kin project, an artistic project that integrates visual art, tattooing, and contemporary rituality.

The research focuses on the transformation of wounds, imperfection, and emotional experience into visual language, through material and performative practices and the use of cymatics as a poetic and conceptual tool.

RELEVANT EDUCATION

-Professional qualification as a tattoo artist and dermopigmentation specialist.

-Degree in nursing sciences with specialization in aesthetic nursing medicine.

-Ethical and symbolic approach to the body and skin as artistic language.

-Practice based on listening, relationship, and co-creation with the person.

-Certification as a holistic therapist and art therapist.

NOTES

-All artworks are accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

-Production is exclusively oriented toward unique pieces.

-The activity is currently expanding toward international sales channels, online auctions, artistic and cultural collaborations, humanitarian projects, and personalized private commissions.