ELIZABETH YOCHIM
Artist and ritual practitioner exploring memory, myth, and the living body
to develop site-specific works rooted in embodied practices and art history.
BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY: PISCU NURAGHE
Elizabeth Yochim and Domenico Cortese
Ritual performance, photography and text
Opening Reception
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3379 Robertson Place
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Saturday, July 18, 2026, 7-10PM
Performance at 8:30PM
A photographic and performative exploration of Nuraghe Piscu in Sardinia — an ancient stone architecture suspended between earth and sky, memory and myth, descent and transformation.
Created through an embodied encounter with the prehistoric landscape of Sardinia, the exhibition traces thresholds between the human and more-than-human worlds through image, ritual, movement, and text.
This marks the first exhibition of Domenico Cortese’s work in the United States.
RSVP required.
Please RSVP to ey@elizabethyochim.com
Entering the structure was an act of descent as much as ascent. Each stone guided me inward into the dark, womb-like chamber associated with the dea madre, the mother goddess, and the ancestral dead who linger in Sardinia’s subterranean imagination. The ritual unfolded as a listening practice: to stone, to breath, to the echo of grief held in the land itself. Movement slowed, gestures pared down, allowing the body to become a vessel for remembrance rather than representation.
Midway through the offering, a second grief opened. On the same day, far away, a memorial was being held for a childhood friend whose ceremony I could not attend. Distance collapsed; time folded. The ritual at Nuraghe Piscu became a shared site of mourning, where personal loss met ancestral memory. These remembrances merged into a single gesture, an offering to the seen and unseen, the named and the ancestral, part of an ongoing inquiry into how ancient sites can hold contemporary grief, and how ritual may reopen pathways for mourning sealed by modern life.
Photographs by Domenico Cortese (@sardinianphotographer) trace this quiet collaboration between body, stone, and horizon.
