24/12/2025
Andrea Ferrero (b. Lima, 1991) lives and works in Mexico City. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima), was a participant in the SOMA Academic Program (Mexico City 2019–2021), and received the 2025 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award. She has presented solo exhibitions at Chez Plinio (Milan), PALMA Galería (Guadalajara), Swivel Gallery (New York), Gallery Shilla (Seoul), and Ginsberg Galería (Lima). Recent group exhibitions include Otrxs Mundxs at Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), participation in the Malta Biennale (Valletta), and the Taoyuan Art Prize (Taiwan), as well as a guided meditation at Museo Jumex (Mexico City). She has participated in artist residencies at Pivô arte e pesquisa (São Paulo), HANGAR Centro de Investigação Artística (Lisbon), Fountainhead Arts (Miami), MASS MoCA (Massachusetts), and FLORA ars+natura (Bogotá). Among her upcoming plans for 2026 is a solo show at Galería Gato in Lima.
Her practice is rooted in sabotaging power games, in an effort to resist the permanence of narratives of domination embedded in urban landscape. Tracing their mythological origins, Ferrero explores how languages of control have been transplanted and mutated across geographies. With glimpses of mockery, irony, and mischief, Ferrero seeks to disarm motifs of power through fictions that weave historical fact with hearsay, political myth, personal memory, prophecy and possible futures, transforming structures that once demanded reverence into stages of fragility and interaction. Combining techniques that range from aluminum casting to ironwork and chocolate making, she translates her fantasies into immersive installations that reframe familiar forms and, at times, trade permanent materials for perishable ones, including chocolate, gelatin, and wax. Treading along the lines of disobedience, guilt, provocation and deceit, Ferrero’s work often invites the audience to participate in sensorial, intimate acts of irreverence, trespass, and desire such as performative play and edible banquets, offering comforting reminders that all empires eventually fall.
