Elena Hoyos (Colombia)

Elena Hoyos (Bogotá D.C., 1999) is a designer and visual artist interested in large-scale and site-specific installations made with recovered materials. She graduated Magna Cum Laude in Design and Cum Laude in Art from the Universidad de los Andes (2023). She is interested in adding value to the waste materials that are produced, consumed and discarded daily, understanding and taking advantage of their properties to re-signify them and turn them into the raw material of each project. Interested in exploring places where objects and materials have been discarded for believing that they can no longer fulfill functions, seeking to reconsider the relationship of humans with the material world that surrounds them.