24/04/2026
“In my art practice, there is an accompanying conflict between the technical ambition and tendencies for artistic liberation. My work is evolving storytelling, never ending and a consistent interest in metaphorical potential of the visuals. Focused on the techniques of painting, drawing, graphic art and digital painting, I strive fgurative art and the approach of surreal compositions, to build an indefnite symbolic narrative and
open to interpretations. The distinctive and permanent element is the portrait, the human figure and the accompanying elements in relation to them. I focus on themes such as eroticism, intimacy, introspection and curiosity, aiming to build a personal expressive style, inspired by life experiences, thoughts and conclusions, but with an independence from reality and logic. Another important inspiration in everyday life and during the creative process is the history of art, especially surreal art, music, facts about philosophy and human psychology, which
enable reflection on the human condition. My work consists on combining the digital medium and the analogue techniques of drawing with graphite on paper. Such a bond tends to evolve a balance between the
tangible and the intangible parts of the creative process. The compositions embrace the simplicity and the dramacity of graphic art, merging it with the experimental side of digital software to create a new visual approach towards an old medium, usually associated with printmaking and illustration techniques.
The process starts with sketches, studying diferent fragments as individual subjects, to bring them together as an unifed work and narrative. The human body, the female figure is a central protagonist, created to melt in natural and unnatural objects, with certain roles and meanings, in order to tell a story, an ambiguous one, and confess an
experience.”
Alessia Podgorica is a visual artist who graduated from the University of Arts in Tirana, completing a Bachelor’s degree in Easel Painting (2018–2021) and a Master’s degree in Painting–Graphics and Teaching (2021–2023)
She has previously exhibited with and