Vanessa Rosa is a Brazilian visual artist and art historian. She creates projects that mixtures public art, community activities, technological experiments and historical research, usually having painting as her main medium. When Vanessa started to do street art, back in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, she produced imaginary figures of people from other times, in a life-like scale, as if there had been a mix between the everyday life of the past with the present one. However, as years passed and life changed, Vanessa started to develop a taste for a more geometrical approach. Her love for history continued, she developed a research about algorithmic images and traditional patterns. From Portuguese Tiles, Islamic sacred Geometry, Chinese porcelain, to the study of ethnomathematics and patterns within indigenous society, Vanessa’s work became tales about world history and cultural exchange. In terms of techniques, she went from a completely free hand approach to a mix of ancient and contemporary technologies, from ceramics to laser cutting, video mapping and more recently artificial intelligence.
*figure in image 1 & 2 by artist Ge’rard Quenum
