Alfredo Aceto

Alfredo Aceto’s practice develops around concepts drawn from psychoanalysis, sociology, and art history, giving rise to works that, through media such as drawing, sculpture, and photography, bring to light traumas and emotional layers by intertwining personal and collective narratives. He explores the relationship to the body and tradition through intimate stories often imbued with unresolved tensions. His work examines the connections between reality and fiction, revealing complex power relations and dynamics of domination.

Aceto’s references range from literature to gender studies, from economics to visual and textual archives, which he manipulates in order to deconstruct notions such as failure and disalienation. At the core of his research lies perception, often investigated through a singular and intimate relationship to sound. His practice unfolds through a plurality of languages — sculpture, photography, video, and drawing — finding its most accomplished form in the conception of the exhibition as an autonomous medium. His exhibitions create immersive environments, sometimes enriched with video projections and sound installations, inviting the audience to navigate between the visible and the invisible, between presence and absence, constructing symbolic spaces that evoke metamorphoses and transitions.

Drawing often represents the starting point of his research, yet it is the desire to place distant narratives in dialogue that leads him toward writing. Aceto considers his works as the result of collisions between different stories, where improvisation plays a key role, allowing the unforeseen to shape his creative universe.

The political dimension of his work emerges through a subtle critique of power structures and dominant narratives, expressed through the creation of spaces of transition and transformation. Drawing from childhood memories and experiences, he constructs initiatory journeys in which time fragments, revealing a fluid identity — one in constant renegotiation.