Emma Ferreira — Fine Art & Design

Emma
Ferreira

Artist

Current Project

Walk With Fear

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

Born in Buckinghamshire, England, and trained in photographyBorn in Buckinghamshire, England, and trained in photographyBorn in Buckinghamshire, England, and trained in photographyBorn in Buckinghamshire, England, and trained in photographyBorn in Buckinghamshire, England, and trained in photographyBorn in Buckinghamshire, England, and trained in photographyBorn in Buckinghamshire, England, and trained in photographyBorn in Buckinghamshire, England, and trained in photography

Ferreira has exhibited internationally, including at Christie’s Beverly Hills and the Venice Biennale.Ferreira has exhibited internationally, including at Christie’s Beverly Hills and the Venice Biennale.Ferreira has exhibited internationally, including at Christie’s Beverly Hills and the Venice Biennale.Ferreira has exhibited internationally, including at Christie’s Beverly Hills and the Venice Biennale.Ferreira has exhibited internationally, including at Christie’s Beverly Hills and the Venice Biennale.Ferreira has exhibited internationally, including at Christie’s Beverly Hills and the Venice Biennale.Ferreira has exhibited internationally, including at Christie’s Beverly Hills and the Venice Biennale.Ferreira has exhibited internationally, including at Christie’s Beverly Hills and the Venice Biennale.

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

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WalkWithFear

By Emma Ferreira

This work is not safe.It does not comfort, resolve, or protect.It confronts. It pulls you into the spacewhere control collapses and somethingmore honest takes over.

Inspired by the enduring power of ancient Greek sculpture, the figures reinterpret classical archetypes through a contemporary lens. Their vulnerability is not weakness, but strength. Paired with stone-like inscriptions, the works suggest that fear, courage, vulnerability, and transformation are not new discoveries, but enduring truths—etched into the human experience and continually reimagined by each generation.

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 fearis to abandon distance.To give up certainty.To enter fully.

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

The Process