Keiko Bisa Elan El

Keiko Bisa Elan El is a South Jersey-born (Philly-based) multi-disciplinary artist, archivist, and film photographer, who takes an anthropological approach in creating transcendent realities.Inspired by films with valor and fantasy-centered themes that she would watch with her late father (The Black Cauldron, The NeverEnding Story, and The Pagemaster, to name a few) and directors like Guillermo Del Toro, Hayao Miyazaki, and M. Night Shyamalan, Keiko finds comfort in everyday storytelling.Through her practice, she’s established an intuitive process that allows her to alchemize her imagination into a cinematic universe. She believes valuable storytelling builds on an intimate connection between an artist’s vision and the parallel of their lived experiences and ancestral memory.Keiko stands feet planted at the intersection of Black femininity, pleasure, and spirituality, and she takes immense pride in unifying these pieces of herself to evoke an emotional response through her work.She invites her audience to interpret her visual practice and the beauty of nuance, in tandem, as she re-imagines the world with a more expansive lens.