Aledra
Painter & Sculpture
Aledra is a Brazilian visual artist whose practice spans drawing, photography, painting, and sculpture. Her artistic journey has been largely self-taught since she interrupted her formal studies at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP) in São Paulo. She has also studied jewelry and gemology and worked as an art curator and columnist for the digital magazine Psicanalítica. Furthering her knowledge, she pursued studies in art history and painting at Instituto Tomie Ohtake. Philosophy, Art Brut, and the history of dress serve as key influences in her work, shaping a creative process that is both intuitive and reflective. Her artistic exploration is guided by an engagement with tonal and material harmony, embracing asymmetry and redefining beauty—not through shock, but through movement and transformation. Desire plays a central role in Aledra’s visual language. Playful elements such as shoes, desserts, jewelry, fabric sculptures, and the vibrant colors in her paintings evoke a sensory experience, inviting viewers into a world where pleasure and aesthetic exploration intertwine. Currently, she continues her research and artistic practice from her studio in São Paulo, Brazil.
Aledra’s Poetics of Desire and Form
Aledra’s work operates at the intersection of material exploration and aesthetic intuition, where the boundaries between playfulness and profundity dissolve. Her paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media pieces navigate the tension between harmony and asymmetry, rejecting static notions of beauty in favor of a sensorial, evolving language.
Drawing from diverse references—philosophy, Art Brut, and the history of dress—Aledra constructs a visual world where materiality speaks. The surfaces of her works are imbued with a tactile presence; colors are not merely applied but activated, engaging in a dialogue of movement and transformation. Her sculptures, often soft yet structured, challenge the traditional rigidity of form, suggesting an organic, almost breathing presence. Desire, in its many manifestations, lies at the core of her artistic inquiry. Shoes, desserts, jewelry—objects laden with cultural significance—become aesthetic signifiers of pleasure and longing. Yet, rather than indulging in excess, her work refines these elements into a distilled experience of visual and tactile engagement. Her approach resists shock value; instead, it invites a slower, more immersive encounter, where the viewer is drawn into a rhythm of seeing, feeling, and contemplating. In a contemporary art landscape often fixated on conceptual detachment, Aledra’s practice is refreshingly visceral. Her compositions are guided not by rigid structures but by an intuitive process that allows spontaneity and reflection to coexist. The result is a body of work that feels alive—forever in flux, resisting finality, and always inviting the viewer into its unfolding narrative.

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Oil on canvas

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