Alessandra Maria's "RITE."
Opening on Friday, November 4th, 2022 at Galerie Fledermaus in Chicago, Illinois is artist Alessandra Maria's exceptional, must see solo exhibition, "RITE."
Utilizing a limited palette of graphite, gold leaf, and ink, Maria displays a prodigious command of craft. Her work succeeds in evoking symbolist undertones while also transcending tradition to gesture toward something entirely new.
Exploring the space between dreams and reality, between tradition and heresy, "RITE" is an incantation, a chant calling forth truths from a world shrouded in mystery and mist. The result is the female form elevated to an iconography unto itself, inhabiting worlds of myth and magic.
"RITE" is not meant to be viewed as a collection of separate works, but rather as illustrations for a sacred text. Maria has created a world – a society, bound by ritual and belief, in which all elements interconnect. Her subjects are both a celebration and a subversion of the sacred feminine; primal demigoddesses of the dusk, of the space between worlds.
For Maria, "RITE" represents a homecoming of sorts. A return to the world building of her youth when her unencumbered imagination conjured mysterious realms. She began drawing as a means of capturing these worlds of witches and goddesses, giving form to the contents of her dreams. In that way "RITE" is also a map, the work of a cartographer tracing the way back to where her world began.
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