ABOUT

Nayara Nascimento is an Indigenous Brazilian-Canadian artist, writer, and founder of aeny studio—a sculptural practice grounded in The Dissonance Method, her philosophical and material inquiry into the relationship between form, function, and emotional experience. Informed by her neurodivergent perspective, she creates sculptural objects that challenge conventional boundaries between art and design, utility and feeling.

 

Her work gives form to experiences often excluded from artistic discourse: fractured cultural identity, atypical sensory processing, and the nonlinear paths of healing and selfhood. By engaging the inherent agency of materials, her sculptures explore themes of rupture, resilience, and the power of imperfection to evoke emotional resonance.

 

Through aeny, she expands the conversation around what sculpture can express—and how it can feel. Each piece invites viewers to consider the emotional weight of objects and to cultivate a deeper connection to their own embodied experience.

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'My work is a response to a desire to 'switch off' and reconnect with our instinct - a quiet, inexplicable voice inside of us communicating an emotion or feeling that only art or music can convey. In our fast-paced technological world, it seems increasingly vital that we don't render ourselves blind to that deep primal language, so often undervalued'.