Elia Nurvista explores a wide range of art mediums with an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the discourse on food. Using several mediums – from workshop, study group, publication, site-specific works, and performance to video and art installation – she explores the food system to critically scrutinise and address wider issues such as inequality, ecology, gender, class, and geopolitics. In 2015, she initiated Bakudapan food study group, with whom she has conducted research on food within the socio-political-cultural context of South East Asia. She is part of Struggles for Sovereignty, the solidarity platform on Land, Water, Farming, Food which builds lasting solidarity between groups engaged with struggles for the right to self-determination over basic resources. She has been a fellow at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2018-2019), Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2021-2022), Institute for Advanced Study, Nantes (2023), and Villa Romana, Florence (2025).