Alessia Franchi
Alessia Franchi
Seeing Through Her Eyes, 2020
Digital print on matte paper
100 x 175 cm
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
50 x 87.5 cm, unframed
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
About this Work
Seeing Through Her Eyes is a digital, black-and-white photograph that playfully realises the act of looking and seeing through the eyes of another.
About Alessia Franchi
Alessia Franchi is an artist living and working in London. She gained her BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, UAL, in 2016, and is currently undertaking an MA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Art, UCL. Franchi’s practice centres on the contrast between various, predominantly internal states, and moves across mixed media, photography and painting.
Franchi uses a broad range of materials in her work, ranging from paint to metal. Across these textures, she often seeks to expose what she terms “the fight, the clash, the bang” between two opposing elements. The artist visualises these sentiments, displaying and drawing attention to how subjectivity and inner feeling manifest as external battles between people.
Education
2018-2021 Slade School of Fine Art, MFA Fine Art, Sculpture
2013-2016 Central Saint Martins, BA Fine Art, sculpture
Awards & Prizes
2018 Design selected for Tate Christmas Card
2015 - Shortlisted for Hollyport Capital
Group Exhibitions
September 2020 “London Grads Now”, Saatchi Gallery, London
August 2020 “Mouse Trap” exhibition, London
September 2019 - “MA/MFA Slade Interim Show”
October 2017 Work exhibited at Open Studios, Space Studios, London
May 2016 “Central Saint Martins degree show, “Concrete Burns”, London
February 2016 “P.O.N.I (Possibility Of a Non-existent Income)”, Apiary Studios, London
November 2015 “Big Space”, Central Saint Martins, London
November 2015 “Remember Nature”, in collaboration with Gustav Metzger, Central Saint Martins, London
Performances
March 2019 “Internal and External Fixation” at “Visions of Protest”, part of the “Small Press Project” at Slade Research Centre, in collaboration with Ruby Wroe
May 2019 “Wild Rents Fashion” show
March 2019 “Seeing through her eyes, talking with my hands” collaborative performance with Ruby Wroe, performed at the Slade School of Art “Love Symposium”
2016 Solo performance, “Metaphonica”, Central Saint Martins, London
December 2015 “Many Private concerts”, performance with David Toop at the London Contemporary Music Festival, University of Westminster
December 2015 “New Work, 2015 – world premiere”, performance for Charlie Hope at the London Contemporary Music Festival, University of Westminster