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FERREIRA

Los Angeles–based interdisciplinary artist working across photography, sculpture, and installation.

Her practice explores fear, vulnerability, and transformation through materially layered works that merge image, body, and object into psychological space.

Born in Buckinghamshire, England, and trained in photography, Ferreira has exhibited internationally, including at Christie’s Beverly Hills and the Venice Biennale.

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““Exploring the hidden forces that shape our lives.

WALK

WITH

FEAR

This work is not safe.

It does not comfort, resolve, or protect. It confronts. It pulls you into the space where control collapses and something more honest takes over.

I don't overcome fear. I walk with it—closer, deeper—until it becomes inseparable from desire, from instinct, from truth.

Steel, etched language, and fiber are pushed to tension—strained, hardened, on the verge of rupture.

To walk with fear is to abandon distance. To give up certainty. To enter fully.

To live so completely that nothing remains to be feared—not even death.

Walk With Fear

Neon Tubing

Walk With Fear

Neon Tubing

Walk With Fear challenges one of our most deeply held assumptions: that fear is something to overcome, eliminate, or escape. Instead, the work proposes a different relationship—one of companionship. The piece suggests that growth, creativity, intimacy, and transformation rarely exist beyond fear; they exist alongside it. To walk with fear is not to surrender to it, but to stop treating it as a barrier and begin recognizing it as evidence that something meaningful is at stake.