STATEMENT OF WORK

My sculptures, drawings, installations, and their interactions serve as poetic inquiries into both formal and cultural histories. Through an intuitive, process-based approach that's equally interested in the functional uses, cultural narratives, and elemental properties evoked by bronze, clay, wax, fabric, and found objects, my work often relies on research into idiosyncratic instances where the natural and anthropocentric worlds meet. The resulting artworks resist straightforward interpretation but nevertheless suggest the deeply human impulse to answer immaterial mystery with material response.

"Alisha Wessler's work blends elements of the uncanny, mysticism and the supernatural. The images and forms she produces evoke a parallel world, an elusive dimension. At the intersection of the surrealist tradition of automatism and a spontaneous creative impulse, she explores this mysterious space where intuition and research meet. For example, this may correspond to spontaneous gestures, quick sketches, or even automatic writing, where words are transcribed onto paper unfiltered by intellectual reasoning. Indeed, when creating her works, Alisha Wessler often guides the materials organically, letting them evolve at their own pace until the images materialize naturally. In this way, each of her works acts as an open window on a parallel world, where reality mingles with fiction."
— Émilie d’Ornano, curator and art critic