Nayara Nascimento is a Brazilian-born, Canada-based artist, researcher, and founder of aeny studio. She developed​ The Dissonance Method , 

a cognitive framework that studies what happens when we don’t immediately try to resolve or explain away complex inner experiences like contradictory thoughts, sensations, memories, and perceptions.

 

The method begins from the recognition that contradiction or uncertainty are not failures to be resolved. Rather than trying to reduce this tension or chase equilibrium, the Dissonance Method has formalized how holding conflicting states over time (sustained divergence) can force the mind to reorganize its constraints and develop new, more complex forms of understanding.

 

This first took shape through studio-based inquiry, and now extends into applied research and material development, including proprietary composites engineered for environments where sensitivity and structural endurance must coexist, such as marine settings shaped by corrosion, movement, and time. The sculptures and functional objects are not expressions or symbols, but physical records of working through complexity as it unfolds. Each piece reflects a series of choices made without rushing toward a single, final answer.

 

Nascimento’s Indigenous heritage, neurodivergent perception, and background in neuroscience, architecture, and interior design shape this approach, allowing thinking and making to operate as one continuous process.

 

What sits underneath everything is a question she continues to follow…

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