Offshoots i & ii

 In Offshoots, Elsa Maritz offers a quietly uncanny image: her legs and feet emerge from the forest floor like inverted roots,  reaching upward, searching downward.

 The body becomes a mimic, a misplaced sapling, attempting to belong to the ecology it stands within. 

This performative photographic work continues Maritz’s exploration of the porous boundary between human and environment, presence and absence, gesture and stillness. By inserting herself into the landscape, not standing tall like a tree, but anchoring herself upside down, the artist gestures toward an aching desire for rootedness, for undoing, for return.

OFFSHOOTS (i)

Performance Photography 1/3

August 2025

OFFSHOOTS (i)

OFFSHOOTS (ii)

Performance Photography 1/3

August 2025