Andrea Festa Fine Art is a gallery in the heart of Rome. It is an exhibition space characterised by a domestic identity and neoclassical design, within which the international scope is evident.
The space was established in 2020 on the Lungotevere, in front of Castel Sant’Angelo, an area of strong historical interest dotted with countless other cultural venues.
The gallery’s main objective is to promote the research of emerging artists, with a privileged focus on painting, through careful and continuous monitoring of the current art scene.
The gallery follows and supports artists by bringing names of international talents to exhibit for the first time in Italy.
Andrea Festa Fine Art collaborates with numerous figures in the field and is a point of reference in promoting and enhancing artistic work.
His and Hers
Sinead Breslin | Emiliana Henriquez
For MEGA Art Fair, Andrea Festa Fine Arts presents works by Sinead Breslin and Emiliana Henriquez: a compelling dialogue between two artists who embrace figurative painting to explore selfhood and shared experience. Deeply rooted in distinct cultural narratives, the works converge through a mutual concern for emotional resonance and physical self-expression.
The gallery showcases Breslin’s large-scale painting Shower Room (2024, oil on canvas, 160 × 160 cm) alongside Henriquez’s The Eternal Recurrence (2023, oil on canvas, 36 × 28 cm) and Willendorf (2023, oil on canvas, 20 x 25 cm). By placing Henriquez’s works close, we highlight the contrast in scale, composition, and technique, amplifying the interplay between their respective artistic languages.
Henriquez’s work is informed by her upbringing in East Los Angeles, where she navigated a multicultural landscape that continues to shape her practice. Her deeply personal yet universally resonant imagery explores themes of resilience, transformation, and emotional connection across cultures. Blending mythology with unpredictability, she constructs dreamlike narratives bathed in vibrant hues—lime greens, deep reds, and rich olds—infusing her figures with heightened emotional presence. Henriquez’s paintings channel the intimacy of Jordan Casteel and Lisa Yuskavage while drawing on the dramatic tension of Rembrandt and Goya. Her selected works for the fair continue this exploration of vulnerability and strength, featuring female figures enveloped in spaces that feel both otherworldly and deeply familiar.
Breslin’s paintings serve as meditative portals, where solitary figures exist in settings that blur the lines between interior and exterior, past and present. As a relentless traveller, she absorbs and reconstructs cultural references into works that function as both personal reflections and universal archetypes. Her compositions, marked by flattened perspectives and exaggerated colours, evoke the surreal logic of dreams while remaining firmly rooted in the physicality of oil painting.
For Mega Art Fair, Breslin presents a figure caught within an undefined yet evocative environment, suggesting the intimacy of memory or the dislocation of perpetual movement. Her work echoes the fragmented presence of aged photographs, transforming fleeting moments into timeless meditations on place and identity.
By bringing together these two artists, His & Hers highlights the power of figurative painting as a means of investigating identity, memory, and the emotional depths of human experience. Their juxtaposition emphasises the dynamism of their practices—Henriquez’s intimate, layered storytelling set against Breslin’s expansive, contemplative compositions—creating a space where contrast and dialogue fuel a compelling visual and conceptual experience.
