Eleonora Agostini's A Study on Waitressing is a multi-layered investigation on waitressing used as a metaphor to explore ideas of gender behaviours, societal expectations, and performing in and for the public. It delves into the relationship between labour and personal life, between vulnerability and strength, between the public and private, between the observer and the observed, and between a mother and daughter.

Eleonora Agostini (b.1991) is an Italian artist based in London. She received her MA from the Royal College of Art in London. Her work has been exhibited internationally in group and solo exhibitions including galleries and museums such as FOAM Amsterdam, Venice Biennale, South London Gallery and Borough Road Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery, Fonderia 20.9, Cartacea Gallery, Almanan Inn, Forte Belvedere, L21 Gallery, Museo Castromediano Lecce, MAR Ravenna, National Museum of Gdansk, and festivals such as Peckham 24 London, Getxophoto International Photo Festival, Fotografia Europea, Photo OpenUp, Circulations Festival Paris, and Format Festival Derby. 

She was one of the artists of Futures Photography 2021 (selected by Camera Torino) and Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019. She was shortlisted for the Foam Paul Huf Award and selected for FOAM Talent in 2024. In 2023 Agostini was a recipient of the Art Council England Grant (DYCP) and in 2024 of the Italian Council. Her work, A Study Of Waitressing, was published in a book form by Witty Books. 

Agostini has been featured in multiple printed and online publications such as FOAM Talent,  Photoworks Annual, Der Grief, Unseen Magazine, Wallpaper, GUP Magazine, among others. Her work A Blurry Aftertaste is part of the Government Art Collection.