Born in Milan in 1999, Alessandra Breviario is an emergent artist and director. She studied figurative painting in Italy, near Milan, and visual arts at HSPVA in Houston, TX, before moving to UCA, Farnham, UK where she graduated in Fine Arts (Hons). Coming from a background of visual arts, her practice has evolved into a multimedia research of the role that communication plays in re-shaping our perception of the world. Since 2017 she has been exhibiting her work in various group shows in the UK, USA and Italy.
She currently lives and works in Milan.
In an era where everything is accessible to anyone, anywhere, at any time, her work concentrates on unique temporary experiences that only exist “now and here”. It aims at the creation of mental and physical spaces, and investigates how these can affect people’s perception and relationship with others and what is considered the real. With the intention of unveiling new ways of communication, especially with the natural realm, her practice attempts to re-enact a sensorial connection with the world and to reshape our understanding of it.
While she employs sound as an awakening element that can raise awareness about one’s presence in the world and unlock new ways to comprehend it through listening, her video work mostly develops around the question of reality and researches how “the real” is structured and experienced through the senses.
A key component of her body of work is a strong experimental approach that refuses to be defined by a media or a process. Particularly, she is interested in seeing how different materials interact with each other and how a media can be translated into another one; for instance how sound can be visualized, how a sensation can be translated into a gesture or how a memory can be processed into a sequence of images.