Session n.1111 B
€2.006,00
Resin, ink, and acrylic on Japanese paper,
mounted between two Plexiglas plates and suspended from the wall with transparent nylon thread.
104 × 72 cm
2024
Artist: Wanda P Cosentino (BRA/FR)
I am an artist and researcher based in Paris. My artistic practice is deeply rooted in the investigation of mysticism and its parallels with principles of modern science. This conceptual and spiritual foundation guides both the choice of materials, such as Japanese paper and resin, and the way the works are created and unfold within space. Washi, with its delicate and porous structure, intensely absorbs gestures and layers of pigment. Its surface responds directly to movement, revealing the relationship between body and matter. Resin, applied over the paper, creates energetic fields and opens space for light to pass through with greater intensity. Painting, in turn, emerges as a continuity of the process. Technological tools, when present in the practice, are understood as instruments of a spiritual nature, ways to access other layers of reality. I was born in Rio de Janeiro and moved to Milan at the age of 18, where I pursued my artistic studies, earning a BA at Istituto Marangoni and a Master’s degree at IED. Since relocating to Paris, I have joined the research and experimentation group at ENDA, École Nationale d’Art. I studied painting and drawing under Olivier di Pizio at the Atelier des Beaux-Arts de Paris, and I have been receiving ongoing mentorship from artist and researcher Anna Israel since 2022. In recent years, I have undertaken research-based expeditions, including a pilgrimage and papermaking atelier in Japan in 2024, where I explored the intersection of Shinto and Buddhist philosophies and Japanese aesthetics. In 2023, I traveled to Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia, to investigate the relationship between ritual and artistic production during the Nabataean period. My work has been presented at Open Studios in Paris and during the Non-Human Design Residency at Domaine de Boisbuchet.