Nathalie Ventura

– Casa Wabi 2024

Community Project

The project consisted, first, of conversations between children and their ancestors, where the latter shared stories about these lands, the cultures preserved by each family, curiosities about the oldest members, and more. Then, as a group, we shared what each person had learned. In the second stage, we recorded each family’s history through various cultural expressions specific to these communities, such as drawings, writings, books, sculptures, objects, and more.

Log-Piece

Brazil

Río de Janeiro, 1992

Nathalie Ventura explores various media such as sculpture, installation, drawing, and printmaking. Her work delves into themes related to the impossibility of sustaining the structures that support certain Western and urban lifestyles in the face of Anthropocene challenges. She questions our ways of inhabiting the planet, our relationships as a species with non-human beings, the implications of what we consume and produce, and the ongoing influence of the modern legacy that separated culture from nature. Consequently, her work unfolds through the physicality of the materials involved, considering them as part of a broader, more complex territorial and temporal system. Ventura’s poetic approach establishes encounters and tensions between “us” and “them,” ultimately reflecting on our own existence. She is an artist, architect, and educator, holding a master’s degree in Architecture from PUC-Rio. She lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
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