© Andrea Ferrero pièces detruites, 2022 Gelatin, chocolate
Andrea Ferrero's recent work unfolds in edible pieces that focus on the process of eating, digesting, metabolising, and excreting, often involving the audience in ephemeral sweet bacchanalia.
Andrea Ferrero (b. Lima, Peru, 1991) is a visual artist currently living in Mexico City. Her work engages with themes of power, iconography, and collective consciousness. Notably, she is a participant in the Malta Biennale 2024 and has exhibited at Museo Jumex (Mexico City), TMOFA (Taoyuan), Swivell Gallery (New York), Gallery Shilla (Seoul), and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Lima).
Andrea’s work critically considers iconographies of power and our relationship with them, staging fictional realities that playfully encourage new ways in which we can reappropriate and resignify symbols of domination that have been inserted into built space and embedded into collective consciousness. Recently focused on researching food as spectacle, eating rituals as stagings of power and their relation to architecture and ceremonial aesthetics, it seeks to challenge colonial legacies through strategies of humor and fiction. Using archival material, photogrammetry, molds, imprints, and 3D prints as raw material, her recent work unfolds in edible pieces that focus on the process of eating, digesting, metabolizing, and excreting, often involving the audience in ephemeral sweet bacchanalia.
Andrea’s work critically considers iconographies of power and our relationship with them, staging fictional realities that playfully encourage new ways in which we can reappropriate and resignify symbols of domination that have been inserted into built space and embedded into collective consciousness. Recently focused on researching food as spectacle, eating rituals as stagings of power and their relation to architecture and ceremonial aesthetics, it seeks to challenge colonial legacies through strategies of humor and fiction. Using archival material, photogrammetry, molds, imprints, and 3D prints as raw material, her recent work unfolds in edible pieces that focus on the process of eating, digesting, metabolizing, and excreting, often involving the audience in ephemeral sweet bacchanalia.