Andrea Canepa

Andrea Canepa uses drawing, sculpture and textiles to explore systems and patterns in societal and cultural knowledge. Her practice is centred around the human tendency to control and make sense of complex reality through processes of categorising, organising and classifying. Incorporating found objects, such as maps, books, scales, and Oriental rugs, Canepa reorganises reality away from normative knowledge of the late capitalist age. To do so, she applies alternative organisational criteria, such as colour, shape, form and visual patterns, thereby unlocking deeper means of understanding reality. Her sculptures and installations – composed of objects, diagrams and colourful, geometric shapes and fabrics – are systems that give space for significations that usually fall outside the systems of traditional, Western “logic”. Deeply conceptual, Canepa’s practice speaks to inclusion and the joy of relieving that which is usually hidden.