In this performance, Alessandra BB explores the feeling of alienation, physical, emotional, and social, through direct contact with the sea. Wrapped in many layers of clothing, like layers of memory, culture, and gender, she walks into the water, letting the waves carry, knock, and return her.
She becomes a figure both protected and exposed, experiencing the loss of control and the act of surrender — a metaphor for entering the unknown. The sea becomes a partner and a witness in this ritual.
Inspired by Zygmunt Bauman’s idea of the “wanderer,” Alessandra creates the image of a woman who steps outside the familiar to stay true to herself. In the end, the wave pushes her back to the shore, leaving a trace in the body — a feeling of weight, resistance, and quietness inside.
This performance is not just a test of endurance, but a kind of cleansing, a way to resist, release, and rethink the boundary between self and world.

Video performance, 92 sec 1920 x 1080 px (Full HD)
Performance & video documentation
videographer @eltiodelaluz
2025

“The Nest” is a conceptual performance and two-channel video work that explores the concept of shelter as a form of resistance in instances of migration, environmental fall apart, and social fragmentation.

The work makes use of the image of a nest — a symbol of vulnerability, reminiscence, and the woman body — and shows it as a space to rethink the relationship among destruction and care, exile and belonging. At the heart of the task is the concept of making a safe haven from leftovers: discarded, forgotten, unwanted substances gathered through the artist in a space among nature and commercial waste.

The important object is an “egg” — a plastic bag containing a sculptural piece, a swan with a arm as opposed to a head (Swanarm). This metaphor represents motherhood, transformation, and preserved bodily reminiscence.

Making the nest isn't always just physical work but a ritual: an act of rebuilding a misplaced safe space from what became rejected. Here, care becomes a shape of resistance, and the act of constructing is a political announcement. The overall performance is inspired through the thoughts of Judith Butler and Gloria Anzaldúa, inviting us to see vulnerability as a supply of electricity and creative movement as a manner to continue to exist.

The video set up captures each small, intimate gestures and the bigger context — converting the space and the way visitors revel in it. The nest is not a finished item however an ongoing, open area that connects with nearby environments and collective reminiscence.

“Nest” is a feminist meditation on the intersections of ecology, identity, and loss, and it's miles the primary stage of a larger project: a growing community of nests created in communicate with different locations and groups.

The mission asks the target audience: can creating a refuge — even a transient one — be an act of radical resistance in a international with out consistent floor?

Video performance, 2,5 min 1920 x 1080 px (Full HD)
Performance & two-channel video
photo @neurignacio videographer @climbergreen
2025

In “My Paper Sasha,” Alessandra BB explores the themes of violence, vulnerability, and inner freedom through the body and gesture. The work is rooted in her personal experience of childhood abuse - something she didn’t recognize as violence at the time, only as shame, guilt, and loneliness. With this performance, she creates a space where pain can be spoken of - not loudly, but honestly and directly.
This performance is not only about her. It also holds the stories of other women who have gone through similar experiences, emotional dependence, physical abuse, and the loss of their sense of self. Through closeness and shared memory, “My Paper Sasha” becomes a collective female voice.
Inspired by the work of Abel Azcona @abelazcona, Alessandra uses performance as a way to accept and embrace what was once hidden. She leaves the studio and enters the city, carrying a paper figure, Sasha, a symbol of her most vulnerable self. Feeling shame and tension under the public gaze, she continues her path toward the sea. There, nature becomes a witness to her release. Simple gestures bare feet in the water, removing her clothes, feeling the sun become a ritual of returning to herself.
“My Paper Sasha” is an act of recognizing pain and staying close to it. A fragile but powerful statement about the courage to be real so that others may feel seen too.

photo @gasanovaekaterina_photo
2025

"The Trace" is a durational overall performance and video paintings wherein the artist, Alessandra BB, carries a bodily and emotional weight — a ball of yarn woven from vintage garments, identical to the load of her personal body. This burden turns into a symbolic trace of unseen memories: recollections, labor, and generational ache carried in silence, specially via ladies whose voices history has often erased.

As the artist moves thru the woodland, the yarn slowly unravels, leaving a route at the back of her. The terrain — stones, roots, fallen branches — shapes and resists the line, turning into part of the manner. This act of unspooling is both a ritual of release and a quiet form of strength: each step loosens the knot of expectations, grief, and inherited roles.

The wooded area turns into more than backdrop — it's miles witness, sanctuary, and collaborator. In its silence, the gesture becomes amplified. In the very last moments, the artist crosses a river, leaving the trail at the back of and vanishing into the woods. What remains isn't always the burden, but the hint — a soft archive of resilience, love, and letting move.

"The Trace" honors the invisible labor of women: emotional, bodily, and generational. It is a poetic gesture of remembrance and liberation — a call to peer, to sense, and to don't forget what so often goes disregarded.

Video performance, 2,5 min 1920 x 1080 px (Full HD)
Performance & single-channel video
videographer @climbergreen
2024

"My Fabrics" was a 22-hour, two-week performance in which Alessandra BB tore her old, cherished clothes into ribbons and hand-wove them into a massive textile rug. The performance was accompanied by a unique soundtrack featuring sounds from the artist’s life, from childhood lullabies and her father’s voice to contemporary moments such as the cries of her youngest daughter.
When the materials were exhausted, Alessandra wove into the rug the dress she had worn during the performance, linking her past with the present.
The performance vividly reflects her quest for liberation, transformation, and deep self-reflection, creating a space for exploring memory, vulnerability, and identity.
2024

This multimedia series, created using oil on canvas, photography, and papier-mâché, is inspired by Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Works in Iowa (1976-78). The works explore the deep connection between the body and our roots, reflecting the fluid energies within us and how they change as we define our circumstances. Through organic forms and human figures, the series emphasizes our intrinsic ties to nature and each other.