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IG: @andreaferrerop
Andrea Ferrero (b. Lima, 1991) is a visual artist who lives and works in Mexico City. Her work aims to playfully encourage the reevaluation of symbols of domination that have been planted into built space and embedded into collective consciousness. Interested in exploring power games, she appropriates motifs in Latin American architecture that perpetuate narratives of power and control. Often reflecting on how it is that we relate to these iconographies, her work fantasizes with ways of resignifying them, crafting exercises of collective imagination and fictions that weave historical facts together with hearsay, political myth, personal stories, prophecies and possible futures. Using archival material, photogrammetry, molds and 3d prints as raw material, she creates sculpture and installation work with chocolate, sugar, steel, silicone rubber and industrial objects, appropriating strategies of intimidation commonly used in colonial architecture in order to displace symbols of power, generating contradictions and rearranging these to configure alternate histories.
Andrea's work has been shown in spaces such as Museo Jumex (Mexico City), TMOFA (Taoyuan), Swivell Gallery (New York), Gallery Shilla (Seoul) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Lima) and the Malta Biennale 2024 (Valletta). She was part of the SOMA Academic Program in Mexico City 2019-2021 and has participated in artist residencies including Pivô arte e pesquisa, Sao Paulo; Mass Moca, Massachcussetts; Fountainhead arts, Miami; HANGAR, Lisbon and FLORA ars+natura, Bogotá, among others. She was awarded the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award 2019 and was a finalist in the Taoyuan International Art Award 2023. Andrea is currently part of OTRXS MUNDXS at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City.