David Aliperti
Born in 1981, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil- David Aliperti is a Brazilian-born plastic artist based in Paris. Educated in fashion design in New York at the Fashion Institute of Technology and in Florence at Polimoda, Aliperti later received a full master’s scholarship at IFM Paris after being selected for ITS 4. Before dedicating himself to his art practice, he worked across luxury and independent fashion, collaborating with houses such as Louis Vuitton, Oscar de la Renta, and Collina Strada, where he became known for a highly intuitive, whimsical, and deeply personal approach to form and narrative.
Art initially emerged as a private language—an intimate space of selfexpression developed alongside, but separate from, a public-facing career. For years, this work remained unseen until Aliperti was discovered by Somad, a New York-based talent incubator, marking a decisive shift in his practice. His first exhibition, Mother Tree, introduced a body of work rooted in memory, belief systems, and the porous boundaries between the human, the vegetal, and the spiritual.
"Art and storytelling do not exist to clarify, but to reach. What cannot be defined can still be encountered, because so much of what matters cannot survive language"
Working primarily with air-dry paper clay, Aliperti embraces fragility, lightness, and impermanence as conceptual tools. His sculptures bear visible traces of making-fingerprints, pigment shifts, and subtle imperfections-asserting process as a form of testimony.
The material’s accessibility and resilience mirror the artist’s interest in overlooked knowledge systems, ritual plants, animism, and non-anthropomorphic notions of the divine. Aliperti has exhibited with Alcova in Miami during Art and Design Week, in Varedo during the Salone del Mobile, and in Berlin. His work is widely noted for its narrative density and emotional intelligence, exploring shared human experiences across cultures while resisting fixed identities, hierarchies, or singular readings.
