Alexia Pedal

Born in Lima, Peru, Alexia Pedal is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Linz, Austria. Her work oscillates between sculpture, textiles, ritual and artistic research. She has exhibited in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, the USA, Germany and India.

Her early encounters with ancestral objects and traditional arts, particularly weaving and embroidery, have shaped her characteristic ornamental aesthetic. Interested in a holistic approach to art, she investigates the relationships between material, memory and the symbolic languages that inhabit our collective subconscious.

Her practice has gradually evolved from sculptural explorations of organic forms and biomimicry, as seen in About Feathers, toward an investigation of weaving as an ancestral language. In Soft Gardens: Landscaping Contemporary Semiotics in Woven Textiles (2017), she explores the relationship between traditional textile knowledge, symbolic structures and contemporary systems of communication. Throughout this journey, the ritual process of making remains central to her work.

In 2021, Alexia moved to the Peruvian rainforest, where she spent several years tending the land, mothering and caring for a cacao forest. Living in close relationship with the cycles of nature, her artistic practice became increasingly intertwined with everyday rituals, traditional knowledge and the rhythms of the living world. Rooted in an ecofeminist sensibility, her research explores the ancestral sources of artistic expression, where making, caring and relating to the Earth are inseparable.

In 2026, before moving back to Europe, she presented Riniñami (Ya me voy), a solo exhibition in Lima reflecting on migration, memory and belonging. Through woven patterns, repetition and symbolic forms, the exhibition explored how ancestral visual languages can become portable territories of memory and connection.

Now based in Austria, Alexia continues to investigate the intersections of traditional arts, ecology, ritual and contemporary artistic practice, exploring how ancient ways of making can reconnect us with the living sources of creativity, memory and belonging.