Alessandra Risi (1997) was born and raised in Lima, 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 Somerset London (2025) and in 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.
Through painting I seek a constant exercise of questioning and connecting my Peruvian background and the new spaces that surround me. Painting is a tool to communicate and decontextualize my ideas. In a process of appropriation of elements and problems, I alter the historical order to generate a reading of the objects that connect to my roots as a Latin American woman with European ancestors. Research materials such as books and stamps are key to rethinking colonial and capital systems in order to understand nature as a means of power that is at the same time vulnerable. In a muscular process of chaos and distraction, an animal instinct comes out through colour and the line. Movement here is understood in the objects as well as in the different planes that comprise these works. The tones are fundamental to give strength to each idea. They appear according to each situation, and they enhance the idea as well as the different format and materials. Inside the painting there are multiple readings: that of the object, the situation and then mysterious and incomprehensible elements.