Nayara Nascimento is a Brazilian-born, Canada-based sculptural artist, designer, researcher 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 Indigenous heritage and neurodivergent perception, she creates sculptural objects that challenge conventional boundaries between art and design, emotion and matter.

 

Her practice is shaped by what she calls Inner Fluency, a way of making where instinct leads and understanding emerges through the act itself. Rather than beginning with a fixed plan, the form develops through touch, resistance, and response; decisions are made through sensation rather than prediction. This works in parallel with material experimentation, using composites created from recycled and unconventional materials. Through this method, tension, memory, and identity become structure, and the final work holds the record of that exchange.

 

Ongoing research has opened the work to larger and technically demanding applications, including marine environments where durability and sensitivity must coexist. This has led to the development of composites and fabrication techniques capable of both structural integrity and aesthetic nuance. The work continues to question what functional sculpture can hold, not only as form but as feeling. In each piece, the process remains visible: memory, pressure, and transformation held quietly in the surface.

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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'.