About

ARTIST BIO

B. 1990 (Paris)

Alexa Culioli is a Franco-American artist based in Chicago.

A multi-media artist who manipulates materials such as paper, ink, copper, leather, textiles and wire —materials meant to change over time— invites a reflection on the act of preservation and value over time.

Her compositions involve dystopian objects without obvious use, and social landscapes that echo the ancient as well as the future, amalgamated into as a seamless, sustainable continuum.

Her interior styling work informs her work’s study of objects uncoupled from their semiotics, drawing inspiration from ancient cultures (prehistoric structures, cave paintings) as well as futuristic designs from contemporary product designers (Rick Owens, Arno Declercq).

An interest in presenting her artwork within an architecturally considered context leads Alexa to design exhibitions as a one-time performative immersive installation, meant to elicit the viewer’s personal response to the work. This encounter of the work and the viewer aligns with a theme of fostering a sense of displacement, tabula rasa, meant to conjure a sense of universal belonging through the ancestral and the alien.