Deadline, 2003

Elena Arzuffi’s work entrusts the possibility to outline intimate and reflective dimensions to drawing, through a simple and faintly hinted graphic stroke. In the light of a reinterpretation of the concept of video animation, the artist perfected a technique by which her light, hand-drawn images and colour photographs complete one another, in which the former are often produced on the basis of the latter on the basis of a procedure of partial tracing performed by placing sheets of transparency on top of them. The ensuing drawings are however approximate, and their incomplete figures provide the viewer’s imagination with the task of filling in the missing parts.[...]