Alexandra Pozzo di Borgo was born in The Hague, Netherlands, and lives and works in Paris. She began her creative journey in costume design and painting on textiles before pursuing professional training in decorative painting at IPedec Pantin in 2000.
A pivotal moment in her artistic development came through her encounter with painter and professor Guillaume Beaugé at La Miroiterie in Paris, which deeply influenced the construction of her artistic language and encouraged her continued evolution as a painter.
Alexandra Pozzo di Borgo has developed a distinctive visual style situated at the crossroads of figuration and abstraction, where each gesture and brushstroke reflects her personal perception of reality. Her works explore movement, emotion, and the subtle tension between the visible and the imagined.
Since her first solo exhibition in 2008 at Galerie du Génie in Paris, Alexandra has exhibited in numerous galleries and cultural venues. In 2018, her work was presented at the prestigious Grand Palais in Paris as part of the exhibition Art Capital, as well as at the Bastille Design Center during the 18th Biennale of 109.
“If one word were needed to characterize Alexandra Pozzo di Borgo’s work, ‘fusion’ would undoubtedly be the most fitting choice for such a challenging exercise in brevity. The common, mechanical definition of the term—the transition of a body or substance from a solid to a liquid state, or the loss of distinction between two entities—actually describes the artist’s unique approach in reverse. Forms sit side by side, intertwine, and eclipse one another. Black lines soften and then straighten, as if marking the edges of a body of water buffeted by the mistral—here, the wind-like sweep of a brush with blended bristles. Colors neighbor and embrace each other in fractal-like shapes where curves transform into sturdy buttresses. The composition emerges from a sum of complex movements: everything diffuses while simultaneously supporting everything else. Such is the strange paradox of these sinuous acrylics rendered with a watercolor sensibility: the vision of a subject that is clear, upright, structurally sound, and confident in its draftsmanship—far removed from any initial chaos. Indistinctness yields a concreteness as hard as rock; the blending creates a realistic sharpness.
The subjects APB addresses follow this logic of fusion: taking up classic themes from the history of form—the artist’s studio, still life, studies after the Old Masters, en plein air painting, vanitas, and so on—and drawing them into her own orbit to spin the combination and blend elements until a state of dissonance is reached. Much like a jazz musician summoning a world of musical influences from the depths of a trumpet to sustain a single, clear note. Through fusion, the painter asserts the power of representation. She weaves a thread of vision that travels from one time to another, one state to another—from liquid to solid, from a fishmonger’s stall to a Vermeer interior, in short…”
Frédéric de Lachèze, APB Free Fusion
