ANDREA FERRERO
Architectural Digestion
PRESS RELEASE | May 9, 2024
THE GRAND TOUR
AN IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE TO METABOLIZE THE MEANING OF TRAVEL AND CULTUREANDREA FERRERO | Architectural Digestion
A Happening | June 1, 2024
On View through July 2024
Art/artefact Viewing Room
Art/artefact is delighted to present Architectural Digestion by Andrea Ferrero, an audience-activated trompe l’oeil experience of ephemeral bacchanalia featuring her signature edible sculptures complemented by objects of contemplation including a custom tablecloth by Sarah Espeute and cushion overlays featuring Giovanni Piranesi’s Vedute di Roma, both Art/artefact exclusives, curated by Audra Kiewiet de Jonge, art advisor and founder of Art/artefact.
THE GRAND TOUR
Inspired by the Grand Tour and the elaborate displays of new foods from conquered lands in pièces montées at court banquets of the 17th and 18th centuries, the Art/artefact trompe l’oeil table invites you to consider the consumption of culture—how travel changes us and how we, in turn, change the place.
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.
A R T / A R T E F A C TArt/artefact is an intimate exhibition space in the home of our founder that places art and antiques at the heart of a contemporary aesthetic. By bringing art out of the gallery and into a living environment, Art/artefact creates a conversation with objects to live and be inspired by through seasonal installations in collaboration with guest artists.
A U D R A K I E W I E T D E J O N G EAudra Kiewiet de Jonge founded Art/artefact as an extension of her respected boutique art advisory and interior design practice, where she offers private, corporate, and hospitality clients a contemporary approach to collecting and living with art and antiques. A serial collector with a voracious eye, Audra is passionate about connecting people with the stories behind the art and investing the viewer in the artistic process of creating across mediums and disciplines. Published in Frederic, Galerie, Luxe, and Veranda, her background includes positions at Galería OMR in Mexico City, with Kate Brodsky of KRB in New York, and Maja Smith of Found by Maja in San Francisco before establishing her advisory firm in 2018.
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BUILDING COLLECTIONS TO LIVE IN.
Audra Kiewiet de Jonge is an art advisor and designer who places a collection at the heart of every project.
Formally trained as a painter and an art historian, she brings a modern sensibility to her historical perspective–bringing art and objects into context and conversation with the way we live today.
Led by Audra, Art/artefact is a full service art advisory and interior design practice working with residential, corporate, and boutique hospitality clients nationally.