ela kazdal

Ela is an artist and filmmaker based in London and a video editor at MUBI. She has presented her films at Salt Beyoğlu in Istanbul (TR), Æden in Berlin (DE), Everyman Cinema, Firstsite, Fabrica, Royal College of Art (UK) The Film-maker’s Cooperative in New York (US) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL).  
















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Drawing inspiration from Hito Steyerl’s seminal essay The Terror of Total Dasein: Economies of Presence, the exhibition critiques the pressure to perform constant digital presence and the polished personas we construct online. Featuring ten international artists, The Luster delves into how sleek, curated surfaces often conceal deeper emotional and political complexities — while tracing contemporary forms of longing, connection, and visibility. Presented across vitruta’s carefully designed industrial interior with exposed brick, steel beams, and tactile surfaces—the show becomes a site-specific dialogue between material, architecture, and emotion.


When a girl loves her shoes, she always make them fit.

I have worn shoes my friend, my toes were like this - because they didn’t have my size.

Every time I went to a store and I loved those shoes, they said,
- What size are you ma’am?
- No, you don’t understand. What size do you have?”

I’ll make them work,
I’ll make them fit.
I will walk the shoe.
I walk the shoe, the shoe don’t walk me.
I’ve worked shoes with my feet like this, and sometimes like this to hold onto them.

From 6 to 10,
give it to me,
I love them,
here we go.

when a girl loves her shoes, she always makes them fit
2025
42×24×28 cm
Silicone, lace, button, string.



When a girl loves her shoes
4 min 53 sec.
sound collaboration with Iñaki Ramírez Romero