DEQ TATTOO ARTIST (SOLD OUT)

Elu, birth name Rojda, is a multi-disciplinary artist and humanitarian activist versed in traditional skin marking, visual arts and exploring various analog and digital practices. Embodying art as a gateway of connection amidst borders and boundaries, her artistic work aims to bridge between the ancient and the contemporary.Within the recent decade her labour shifted to preserving the indigenous tattoo tradition DEQ, which she has, additionally to reviving skin marking tradition, dedicated a documentary (in progress), multiple exhibitions, publications and archival projects to.Connecting back to land and source as well as community, art as a tool of social change is the earth in her garden. She contributed and organized humanitarian aid fundraisers through art globally, raising nearly 10.000€ over the past 7 years, alongside creating a circular funding project providing free mental wellness sessions to women and LBTQ+ identifying people from the SWANA region.Being of nomadic origin has led her to collaborate in organizing community events, festivals, exhibitions and workshops globally, with focus on empowering and broadening the representation of BIPOC artists and practitioners in contemporary heterogenous spaces.