Andrea Ferrero (1991) is a visual artist from Lima, Perú who lives and works in Mexico City. Her practice is rooted in sabotaging power games, playfully encouraging the reevaluation of symbols of domination embedded in built space. Understanding ornamentation as a theatrical tool of spectacle, her work investigates the iconographic and mythological origins of power structures and the moment of their inception, resignifying motifs that perpetuate narratives of control through fictions that weave historical facts with hearsay, political myth, personal stories, prophecies and possible futures. Mocking and destabilizing, it turns structures that once demanded reverence into stages of fragility and play, underlining the slippery relationship between the playful and the perverse. Combining traditional techniques like aluminum casting, ironwork and chocolate making with fictional narrative elements, her fantasies translate into immersive installations that subvert symbols of power, at times trading permanent materials for perishable ones —such as chocolate, gelatin, and wax— and other times transforming, displacing and distorting familiar forms. Looking to trigger exercises of collective imagination through sensory interaction, she often invites the audience to participate in performative play and edible banquets, treading along the lines of disobedience, guilt, provocation and deceit.
She received a BFA in Sculpture from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and participated in the SOMA Academic Program in Mexico City 2019-2021. Ferrero's work was recently part of OTRXS MUNDXS, curated by Aram Moshayedi and Lena Solá at Museo Tamayo and the Malta Biennale in 2024. Her work has been shown in spaces such as Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), Museo Jumex (Mexico City), Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (Taoyuan), Swivell Gallery (New York), Gallery Shilla (Seoul) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Lima). She has participated in artist residencies at Pivô arte e pesquisa, Sao Paulo; HANGAR, Lisbon, Fountainhead Arts, Miami; Mass MocA, Massachussets, FLORA ars+natura, Bogotá, among others. Andrea was awarded the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award 2025 and was a finalist in the Taoyuan International Art Award 2023 in Taiwan. Among her upcoming projects for 2025 is a solo show at Palma, Guadalajara and Chez Plinio in Milan.