Alisa's practice includes sculpture, photography, video, textile works and performance, as well as manipulative elements such as smell and sound. Her immersive and dreamlike installations are an invitation to reflect on the symbolic dynamics of visual culture, whereby questions of female subjectivity in particular are brought into focus. Through the deconstruction of ancient myths, which she visually translates back into the present, her work proposes an alternative reading and understanding of the common master narrative and its present day implications.
Alisa studied at Central Saint Martins, London, at Bauhaus University, Weimar and at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago for which she received a Fulbright Scholarship.
Solo exhibitions include Spieglein, Spieglein at Bombon Projects, Barcelona, 2021; Planet Der Sirenen at Nuno Centeno Gallery, Porto, 2020 and American Cream at Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, U.S., 2016. A selection of group exhibitions, performances and screenings include Hex Hex (with André Sousa), Complexo Colosso, Centro internacional das Artes José Guimaraes, Portugal, 2021; I was thought product of the emptiness of space, Bienale de Arte contemporanea de Maia, Portugal, 2021; Onda Podre / Rotten Wave, Twenty Years, Berlin, Germany, 2018; Cum-Ex, Ausstellungsraum der IG Metall, Berlin, Germany, 2017; Manual Memory Management Act I (perfor- mance), Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland, 2016 among others.
In 2017 she founded the curatorial project Kunsthalle Freeport, a mobile and independent exhibition platform currently based in Porto.