CONTACT
IG: @andreaferrerop
Andrea Ferrero (b. Lima, 1991) is a visual artist currently living and working between Lima and Mexico City. Her work centers on iconographies of power and our relationship with them, challenging the way in which ideas of power have been inserted into built space
and embedded into collective consciousness. Through the staging of fictional realities, it playfully encourages ways in which we can reappropriate, resignify and reevaluate symbols that perpetuate narratives of domination. Recently focused on food spectacles, it draws a parallel between the tactical power play behind eating rituals and those in ornamental architecture, seeking to challenge colonial legacies through strategies of humor and fiction. Working mainly across sculpture, Andrea uses archival material, photogrammetry, molds and 3d prints as raw material to create edible pieces that focus on the process of eating, digesting, metabolizing and excreting, often involving
the audience in ephemeral sweet bacchanalia to provoke exercises of collective imagination
Andrea 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. She is currently participating in the Malta Biennale 2024 and her 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). Among her upcoming projects for 2024 is a residency at Fountainhead Arts, Miami in June 2024.