Alisa Arama

As a young artist, I find myself continuously drawn to the complexities and nuances of female identity, particularly through the lens of my own experiences. Each painting is an intimate examination of the many facets of womanhood, touching upon themes of fragility and vulnerability, especially in relation to female sexuality.



My paintings are fragments of a fever dream, caught between tenderness and feral instinct. I am drawn to the fragile and the divine—the silk of skin, the flutter of wings, the weight of a seashell. Each figure I paint hovers in a liminal space, both saint and sinner, creature and muse.

Through oil’s slow alchemy, I explore the raw pulse of vulnerability. My women are not passive subjects but mythic beings—guarded by doves, crowned with roses, shadowed by carrion birds. They are the keepers of their own secrets, luminous against the dark.

I work in chiaroscuro not just for drama, but to carve out an atmosphere where the viewer feels the breath between beauty and unease. Animals become emissaries, symbols, and mirrors; their presence stitches the human form to the natural world, binding my characters to something older than memory.

"Mad Frame" 2025 Madrid
"Mad Frame" 2026 Valencia