ANDREA
FERRERO
ARCHITECTURAL DIGESTION
ANDREA FERRERO
ARCHITECTURAL DIGESTION
ART HAPPENING
JUNE 1 5-8PM
OPEN HOUSES
JUNE FRIDAYS 11-4PM
AND BY APPOINTMENT THROUGH JULY
Andrea Ferrero (b. 1991, Lima, Peru) is a Mexico City-based artist whose work engages concepts of memory, culture, and power through the lens of hospitality and humor. Her edible sculptures in the forms of Greco-Roman ruins are meant to be activated, enjoyed, and, ultimately, digested.
Collapsing the separation between art and audience, Ferrero’s work uses the most basic of human processes, food and digestion, to provoke active questioning of how we collectively swallow and metabolize geopolitical constructions of memory and power, finding in these symbols nourishment, security, fantasy, pleasure, legacy and ruin.
INSTALLATION VIEWS
THE GRAND TOURIn the Art/artefact Salon, Audra Kiewiet de Jonge worked with Ferrero’s signature edible sculptures in pink marbled white chocolate to create an environment that would bring the concepts of travel for pleasure and consumption of culture to life in a domestic environment.
Entitled The Grand Tour, the room is an extension of the artist’s inspiration drawn from the elaborate displays of new foods from conquered lands in pièces montées at court banquets of the 17th and 18th centuries. In the Salon, the viewer participant is invited to the Art/artefact trompe l’oeil table to question what is real and to consider the consumption of culture—how travel changes us and how we, in turn, change the place.
Draped panels recall the Villa Medici in Rome, while a specially commissioned trompe l’oeil tablecloth hand-embroidered in France by Sarah Espeute available exclusively through Art/artefact graces the table. Mirror plateaus incorporate audience members’ own reflections in the viewing experience of the art—confronting the very act of consumption as they partake in the work. Objects of contemplation inspired by the Grand Tours taken in the 17th and 18th centuries are displayed on tabletops and in the bookcase as mementos from a forgotten past.
PRESS RELEASE
The grand tour
A collection of objects of contemplation inspired by the Grand Tours taken in the 17th and 18th centuries evoke mementos from a forgotten past.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Andrea Ferrero (b. Lima, 1991) is a visual artist currently living and working in Mexico City. Her work critically considers iconographies of power and our relationship with them, staging fictional realities that playfully encourage new ways in which symbols of domination that have been inserted into built space and embedded into collective consciousness can be reappropriated and resignified. 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 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 was part of the SOMA Academic Program in Mexico City 2019-2021 and has been part of artist residencies including Pivô arte e pesquisa, Sao Paulo; Mass Moca, Massachcussetts; 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), Swivel Gallery (New York), Gallery Shilla (Seoul) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Lima). Among her upcoming projects for 2024 is a three person show at TRA, Miami and a residency at Fountainhead Arts, Miami.
Audra
Art/artefact is a nationally recognized art advisory and interior design practice founded by Audra Kiewiet de Jonge and known for placing a great collection at the heart of every interior.
Formally trained as a painter and an art historian, Audra’s modern sensibility is informed by her historical perspective—bringing art and objects into context and conversation with the way we live today.
Published in Galerie, Veranda, and Frederic, among others, Audra’s work carries the hallmark of an eye attuned to the exceptional and unexpected with an approachability that feels fresh and unencumbered.
Working with private and corporate clients nationally, Art/artefact interiors are meticulously curated and expertly built to be high on artistry, but not on pretense, informed by her years of experience in the art and interiors worlds, including with Galería OMR in Mexico City, Kate Brodsky of KRB in New York, and Maja Smith of Found by Maja in San Francisco.
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COME VISIT
The Grand Tour is on view through July 25th in the Art/artefact Salon. Attend one of our Open House events or book your appointment below.
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