ABOUT

Eloise Fornieles is an artist working across performance, video, sound, installation and mixed media. Using alter-egos, vocal masks and collage the works explore how the voice is employed to create alternative gender narratives, queer space and acts of subversive dissent.

Her current academic, practice-led research investigates the intersection of three historical expressions of political protest in Rome: ancient graffiti, the Talking Statues of Rome and the pioneering feminist collective Rivolta Femminile. These apparently diverse historical practices and traditions are linked by the opportunities they provided for marginalized subjects to speak to—and against— the extant structures of power.

Fornieles is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the British School at Rome (BSR). Fornieles’ practice-led PhD “UTTER MONSTER” 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, MACRO, Rome, The BSR and was awarded a bursary to carry out her research at Yale University in 2020 and Newcastle University 2025.

Her work has been performed, screened and exhibited in galleries, museums, live art festivals and project spaces in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas, Athens, Madrid, Lausanne, Paris, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, London, and Beijing. In 2023 Fornieles founded Work in Progress Studios in Athens, Greece. www.workinprogressstudios.com