Nayara Nascimento is a Brazilian-born, Canada-based sculptural artist, designer, material 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.

 

Her work is shaped through what she calls The Dissonance Method™: a cognitive and material framework that treats interior multiplicity as a legitimate starting point rather than something to resolve or correct. It is not an artistic style but a way of generating form from 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.

​

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 continues to explore how functional objects can carry inner states without becoming symbolic or ornamental.

 

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?

​

​