ANDREA SOLAJA - AFRODITE

As the world sank into chaos and fear, I learned that life, with its fragile tenacity, is what deserves all my attention. It is from this silent and powerful awareness that my art is born.
Every creative gesture is, to me, an act of memory and transformation. My works are inner journeys, fragments of my lived experience that take shape through matter, light and shadow. They tell the story of who I have been and who I am becoming, weaving wounds and renaissances, roots and metamorphoses.
Once, my expression was guided by the urgency to exist; today it arises from care, from listening, from that slow pace capable of embracing.
My art takes life from a memory: the light of a candle burning in a bunker during the war. From that flame, fragile yet alive, arose my need to imagine, to create worlds.
Even today I paint to guard that light and give it voice.

''Aphrodite''. oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm, 2022.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 ‘‘Bohemia sta sul mare’’, BID, Porto Vecchio, Trieste
2025 ‘’Room of Her own'' with Tacit Collective, Leslieville
2022 LUCE, Palazzo Costantino di Napoli, Quattro Canti, PA
2022 Lilian Caraian, Sala Veruda
2021 Lilian Caraian Award, Sala Veruda
2019 Young Art Selection, Sala Giubileo
2018 Animality, Lux Art Gallery
2017 Young Art Selection, Sala Giubileo
2017 LYNX Award, Lux Art Gallery
2017 Michele Cea Award, Spazio Seicentro

AWARDS

2022 Ex Tempore Prize Coseano
2021 I Prize ‘‘L. Caraian’’ Figurative Art
2019 Ex Tempore Prize Coseano
2019 Scholarship Fine Art School AU
2018 Europe Prize Coseano
2018 Ex Tempore Prize Coseano
2017 Michele Cea I Prize 2nd Edition
2017 Special Prize LYNX