Alessandra Abballe is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and arts educator currently living, working, and making as an uninvited guest in Tkaronto/Toronto, the traditional and ancestral territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabek, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat, and subject to the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant.
Abballe's work implements obfuscation and illegibility as visual tactics to investigate notions of identity and belonging, probing the leaky, elusive, inconclusive, and often sticky qualities of affect. While rooted in photographic practices, their work includes archival and vernacular imagery, video, text, textile, needlework, and ceramics. Abballe holds a BFA in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Image Arts (2018) and an MFA in Visual Arts from York University (2025).
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