Alessandra Risi
1997 Lima, Peru
Graduate from the The Royal College of Art in Painting London, UK (2024-2025), Risi obtained her Diploma at Nuova Accademia Di Belle Arti Milano, Italia (2019-2021) and Corriente Alterna Lima, Peru (2016-2018), Her work has been exhibited internationally such as Art Basel Miami, South Korea (2020), Revolver Galeria Lima (2023), Mucciaccia Gallery London (2025), her recent exhibitions at General Assembly London (2026), Salon Acme Mexico (2026) , MO.CA Brescia (2025) between others. Risi develops paintings as a mechanism of communication. Starting from a constant research of identity through personal and familiar archives, such as a collection of stamps, a collection of Italian botanical books from the 20th century and other scientific research trips. This ambivalent process of crossing contamination and transformation lies at the core of artist Alessandra Risi’s work. Through multiple materials such as cooper, ceramic, matchboxes, light boxes and canvas Risi develops installation of paintings hanged with a sensory multiple layers of deepness mediated between cleaning of the material and the language translating. She does this by incorporating her Peruvian and Italian identity, reflected in the territory internalised, embodied, almost metabolised, transferred to the support through gestural and expressive brushstrokes containing abstract and figurative allowing to circulate through the painting itself. The result is a striking interplay between (actual problematics) tension and (body landscape) intimacy, where the subject vibrates with an energy that feels at once elemental and deeply personal. In this transformation, Risi opens a new dimension in her practice: a dialogue where actual problematics are not only represented but lived, carried into the very fabric of her art. In addition, most of the pieces are placed in the space without a frame, establishing a formal relationship with the fluidity and textures of what is represented.
