ANGELA SAAVEDRA

Angela Saavedra is a Colombian-Swiss artist currently living in Lutry, Switzerland. With a degree in advertising and visual communication, her work draws inspiration from themes such as rituals, self-exploration and madness, the human/divine duality, the concept of integration, traditions, disconnection from the world, and femininity. Female figures are the central protagonists of her art. Sometimes they are portrayed with dripping lines, appearing fragile and vulnerable, surrounded by thick textures and mixed techniques that suggest written paths, heaviness, and noise. Other works depict women as structured and divine—confident, wise, healers, and guardians of secrets akin to nature itself.

In a deliberate effort to avoid being confined to a specific artistic style, she challenges herself to explore the full spectrum of expression. From figurative to abstract art, and even land art, her work primarily reflects her personal journey and the pursuit of a kind of “freedom of the soul in a material existence.” Angela’s art is fundamentally dualistic, much like human nature itself, and she is passionate about exploring this dual condition: earthly and divine, finite and eternal, luminous and muddy, loving and self-destructive, compassionate and profoundly apathetic.

She won her first award in 2004 at the international competition held in Fortezza da Basso, Florence, with her project Between Earth and Sky. In 2024, she won the Artexpo Contest at the Venice Biennale and was a finalist in 2023 at Art Revolution Taipei in Taiwan. Her most recent work, Las 7 Plagas (The 7 Plagues), which will be exhibited at YouNique 2025, is an ironic attempt at self-understanding, open to any interpretation. It is a confrontation with the ambiguity of our own perceptions and a reflection of our collective madness.