Nayara Nascimento is a Brazilian-born, Canada-based sculptural artist, designer, researcher and founder of aeny studio. Her Indigenous heritage, neurodivergent perception, and background in neuroscience, architecture, and interior design form the foundation of a practice where thinking, making, and perception operate as one field.

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Her work is shaped through what she calls The Dissonance Method™: a cognitive-phenomenological and material model that treats interior multiplicity as a legitimate starting point rather than something to resolve or correct. The method originated in studio practice and has since been formalized as a structured way of working with complexity. Nothing is reduced or forced into a single direction; the material, body, memory, environment, and thought all have a role, and the form develops through that encounter. The sculpture becomes the physical record of working inside that multiplicity.

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This approach extends into material development and applied research, including composites engineered for environments where sensitivity and structural endurance must coexist, such as marine settings where corrosion, movement, and time are active forces. The work examines how functional objects can carry a physical and chemical record of internal conditions through process, without relying on symbolism or ornament.

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What sits underneath everything is a question she continues to follow rather than answer:

What happens when we stop reducing experience into something singular, and instead let form emerge from the full range of what is present?

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