Elle Fiorentino-Lange

is a multi-media artist based in Boston, MA.

Her work is motivated by a desire to understand transness and its relationship to spirituality and technology. It is centered on data, transformation, metaphor and metaphysics.

I am trying to understand these two sides of my transness. One is deeply humanist, deeply connected to a romantic notion of our place in this reality, to a sense for the divine. The other is so abstract, so suspicious that humanness is temporary, insignificant, and is more comfortable viewing us as the movement of numbers, as information. These selves line up nicely with two very disparate stereotypes of transwomen, the mystic and the programmer. As these identities exist at large, beyond transness, they tend to be at tension and often in conflict. I am perpetually feeling this deep conflict within myself, and I create my art in order to mediate between these two halves. I find they are both determined to speak on ideas of metaphysics, so this is often what my work is most concerned with. I want to find a way to continue the role that trans people have performed across all of human history, a labor of spirituality, from and within my own heavily technologized context.

Her current practice is focused on computational digital and sculptural pieces, and beyond her focus she maintains regular painting and photography practices.

Here is a list, in no specific order, of art and artists who have impacted or inspired her.