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IN THE RESIDENCY
September-October 2014
“Be happy, be creative, smile, enjoy life”
ALEXANDRA PETRACCHI
France
faitetrit@gmail.com // www.alexandrapetracchi.com
Once upon a time was Alexandra Petracchi. Telling her story
without starting with “”once upon a time”” would mislead us away
from her world.
When she’s old enough to choose her own path, she decides to
express herself, by whatever mean, as long as it is full of wonder
and magic. She’s wearing several hats and she loves that.
She becomes officially illustrator for kids. But don’t be fooled.
Behind princesses and fairies in honey sweet colours, clouds are
gathering, shadows are leaning from the borders of the woods,
and the whole scene starts getting strange.
She pauses sometimes from illustration and drawings to explore
her own universe, scratching into the dark corners that marks a
thin line between the strange and the scary. Using metamorphosis
as a tool she calls nature spirits to fill the blank pages, creating
mythologies of vivid fantasy woven of thousand dreams and
nightmares, all together blended into the unearthed realms
hidden deep inside our selves. She cuts them out with a pencil thin
razor to pry them free of our twisted imagination.
She has been invited to show her work in various galleries in
France and around the world.
Member of the collective Iduun (digital art and performing arts)
she cocreated the shows » Kadambini » and « Sol ».
In parallel, she collaborates with Barthelemy Antoine-loeff on
the photo project “Jörd Andi”, and is looking forward to develop
new projects : interactive and immersives installations, writing,
drawing for adults books.