Sissa Micheli graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Professor Franz Graf, Gunther Damisch and Matthias Herrmann after attending the School of Artistic Photography. The focus of her artistic work is on serial photography, the starting point of which is the performative staging of real or fictitious events.

In her objects, video and photographic works, the artist scrutinises the familiar and the everyday and opens up new perspectives and points of view. Fabrics and items of clothing sinking to the ground are captured in their movement, creating sculptural-looking structures in which movement and dynamism can still be felt.
By staging the textiles in front of the body and face of the unclothed model, a play between concealment and exposure is created, making the viewer aware of the vulnerability of the human being.
In series such as ‘The Metaphysics of folds’, ‘Choreography of Moments, Fragile Moments’ or ‘The Infinite Fold’, the thrown fabrics and garments play the main role, albeit in dialogue with the body they envelop. Folding and lighting are central to this, parameters that bring Sissa Micheli's photographs close to painting.
Objects and places that have no compelling relationship to one another are placed in relation to one another, thus opening up new perspectives. Surreal scenes with poetic arrangements are created in which reality and fiction seem to merge.
Micheli's temporary sculptures form a play of sensuality, energy and transience that would be barely perceptible to the naked eye at the moment of creation. With the help of the medium of photography, a fraction of the event is captured and made visible to the viewer, whereby an otherwise fleeting and barely seen moment gains significance.