Artist Louisa Gagliardi presents the 2025 greetings for ECAL with Aphrodisiacs (for 2026), a work that blends digital imagery and tactile materials.
Louisa Gagliardi lives and works in Zurich. A graduate of ECAL, she creates paintings from digital images printed on PVC, a material whose gloss evokes the light of a screen. On these surfaces, she applies gels, varnishes, glitter, or latex, giving her works an iridescent depth and an almost virtual presence. Between illusion and materiality, her compositions reinvent social scenes marked by ambiguity and strangeness, revealing the tension between reality and artifice characteristic of our connected era.
Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries from Seoul to New York and across Europe. Her pieces are included in prestigious international collections, including the Banque Pictet Collection and MAMCO in Geneva, FRAC Normandie, Fondazione Sandra e Giancarlo Bonollo in Thiene, Kistefos Museum in Norway, and TANK in Shanghai.