Ava Namen is a Brazilian transdisciplinary artist and Tarot reader with a background in fashion design and architecture. Her work emerges from the desire to translate and ritualize, through esoteric-aesthetic approaches, phenomenological encounters with landscapes and bodies. 

Using material resonance as narrative conductor, Ava's multidisciplinary work is threaded in silver, both material and symbolic. Silver stainless steel intertwines jewellery, installations, poems, artisanal garments, videos, performance and Tarot. It is a result of reciprocal processes guided by intimate rituals, affective objects, routine and body adornments that manifests enchantment into space.

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These enchanting activations happens mostly within geopoetics, where part of her research addresses extractive systems which dissociates land from meaning. By reintroducing desire, erotic pulsation, ritual and elemental sensing into inanimate objects, such as rocks, Ava seeks to re-enchant the relationship between body and earth.

Her process is guided towards reinterpreting archetypes, in search for alternative representations of being. Stripper heels are transformed into amulet, a steel jewelry dress is built with the same material as a suspended altar, and so forth. The traditional Self and spaces we occupy are constantly questioned, envisioning a co-creation with Nature. 

Many materials she uses are vernacular, Mediterranean based, as the rosemary. They are used in the creation of tools intended for ritualistic, as in Tarot consultations. It is an affirmation of my oracular practice as integral part of my creative research, connected to subjective experiences in the territory which she inhabits.