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HEARTWORK

HEARTWORK HEARTWORK is an intimate video performance in which Fina Ferrara turns inward to mend invisible wounds, using pain as a pathway to regain trust and uncover personal truth. The heart functions both as metaphor and as material body, a vessel of emotion, memory, and transformation. Through the act of sewing the words TRUST and […]

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LA NIÑA DE LA CASA

LA NIÑA DE LA CASA PREMIERED 2025 La Niña de la Casa is a performance rooted in the questioning of inner truth, the internal voice that is vividly present in childhood and gradually silenced over time by trauma, fear, and lived experience. Rather than addressing innocence as something lost, the work reflects on the erosion

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UNVEILED

UNVEILED UNVEILEDPREMIERED 2025Vedica Art Studios and Gallery, Mumbai, India Unveiled is a powerful exploration of identity, transformation, and duality. Through a performative journey from chaos to serenity, Fina Ferrara embodies a shift inspired by the dynamic vibrancy of Barbara Rachko’s Bolivianos series and the contemplative stillness of Susan Fraser-Hughes’ I Am…. Reframing narcissism not as

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PARASITÓ

PARASITÓ PREMIERED IN 2025 In Parasitó, Fina Ferrara delivers a searingly visceral performance that transforms the gallery into a living organism marked by tension, erosion, and corporeal memory. Engaging her own body as a site of both vulnerability and resistance, Ferrara navigates the spatial and conceptual architecture of the exhibition through deliberate, ritualistic gestures that

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La Rupture du Désir

LA RUPTURE DU DÉSIR PREMIERED IN 2025 YELLOW CUBE GALLERY, PARIS, FRANCE Fina Ferrara’s La Rupture du Désir unfolds as a visceral, ritualized descent into the volatile undercurrents of unchecked longing and self-indulgence. Through the symbolic repetition of sipping and discarding wine-filled glasses, each one shattering with audible violence, Ferrara constructs a narrative of transient

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PALIMPSEST

Palimpsest A series of three videos, tracing alchemy through its transformative journey. NIGREDO. An act of identity that is sustained and built within the limits of one’s own desire. ALBEDO. A dream that glimmers across every surface I touch, in a futile attempt to reach you. CITRINITAS AND RUBEDO. Virtual reality has become a cage.

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SARAH

SARAH SARAH is a video performance that explores unauthorized grief, also called silent or forbidden grief: the kind that we ourselves, our surroundings, or society force us not to express as we would need to. The work presents a frozen heart, a symbol of the human capacity to repress emotions in order to make decisions

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OPEN HEART

OPEN HEART OPEN HEART is a powerful visual meditation on the resilience of the human heart. Using a real pig’s heart to represent its human counterpart, the video captures the artist’s hands as they open, tear apart, and rearrange the heart, leaving it both shattered and exposed. This visceral act symbolizes the impact of life’s

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COVID 19 ME TOO

COVID 19 ME TOO VIDEO PERFORMANCE BY FINA FERRARA COVID 19 ME TOO is a series of five video pieces that explore different emotional phases experienced during the first months of the pandemic. Through the works titled Confinement, Fear, Panic, Insomnia, and Transmutation, the series traces an emotional journey shared by many — from physical

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RESONANCIAS

RESONANCE VIDEO PERFORMANCE BY FINA FERRARA These are the spaces where fragments once sticked together. The resilience to observe — and even discard — makes us a little perverse, perhaps. Transformation happens again and again;there is no longer space for what once was. Video art selected by Agite y Sirva – Itinerant Videodance Festival 2019–2020,

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