Balloons taking flight / 10th Arte

10eme Arte is a duo of young women working in Brussels, one Spanish, Almudena Pano, the other Italian, Elisa Sartori. Elisa Sartori is a woman with a rich multicultural background. Born in Italy, at the age of six her father decided to take the whole family to Africa. When she was nineteen, she returned to Italy and moved to Venice to study Decorative Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts. ‘I realised that it's very important for me to tell stories to make reality more amusing and charming. For example, I prefer to tell you that my father is Indiana Jones, when in reality he's just a geologist.’ She has now been living in Brussels for several years, where she enjoys writing children's books, giving art workshops and publishing illustrations for newspapers. She is a secondary school teacher. ‘10emeArte is a project that gives me the opportunity to develop my illustrations in my own way and to collaborate with my very good friend Almudena’. Almudena Pano was born in a small village in the heart of the Pyrenees. She trained in Advertising and Public Relations at Madrid's Complutense University, and soon found herself faced with a ‘major moral problem’ in the world of advertising, she says. My values drive me to want to touch people, to make them laugh and think, and I didn't want to contribute to building a world that was so superficial in my eyes’. Today, she lives in Brussels and is an author and illustrator of children's books and comic strips. ‘10emeArte is a project that allows me to create projects with a different approach to the space, the audience and the purpose of the image... and, of course, to work with my soul mate Elisa’. These two women form a collective of artists firmly rooted in our world, speaking a children's language that touches adults just as much.