Mother Tree

SoMad—a femme and queer-led art space in New York—is pleased to present new work from artist David Aliperti’s meditative and ever-evolving sculptural series, Mother Tree at Alcova Milan, taking place April 7-13, 2025. This distinctive body of work, composed of highly intricate, intimately-scaled sculptures, transports viewers into a vibrant world brimming with imaginative and resplendent flora, fauna, and biomorphic forms, which invite reconsideration of the boundaries between art, design, and experience.  

The sculptures in Aliperti’s Mother Tree series are meticulously crafted from air dry clay. This lightweight material allows the artist to construct forms without scaffolding, enabling new, gravity-defying flora to ascend almost weightlessly. Though it takes many hours of meditative handwork to create the numerous petals and stems of each plant, the sculptural process that Aliperti has cultivated fosters an open-ended approach, unencumbered by premeditation or preset expectations where colors and forms can unfold organically.

David Aliperti (b. 1981, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a multimedia artist whose work speaks of imagined worlds, ecosystems, and the intersection of nature, science, and spirituality. After earning BA from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and Polimoda in Florence, Italy, Aliperti was awarded a full scholarship by the Institut Français de la Mode in Paris, France to pursue his MFA in Luxury Design. He has worked for and collaborated with brands including Louis Vuitton, Oscar de la Renta, and Collina Strada.