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Nayara Nascimento is a Brazilian-born, Canada-based artist and founder of aeny studio. She creates sculptural furniture and lighting using materials like paper pulp, gypsum from drywall remnants, and construction fragments—materials often overlooked, but central to her process. Each piece is built by hand, layer by layer, through a physical, responsive approach shaped by feeling and form.

Some works begin with a sketch. Others begin without a clear plan. But none follow a fixed path. They shift as they’re made, becoming a way to hold something: an emotion, a rupture, a moment in time, made tangible through material.

Her background in architecture and interior design gave her a foundation in spatial structure, while her studies in neuroscience deepened her understanding of perception and the complexity of human experience. Her practice is further shaped by her neurodivergence and Indigenous Brazilian heritage, which inform how she listens—to material, memory, and the unspoken aspects of form.

Nascimento’s work doesn’t follow a fixed method—it unfolds through process, interruption, and a sensitivity to what emerges along the way. Through aeny studio, she creates objects that hold what words often can’t.

'My work is a response to a desire to 'switch off' and reconnect with our instinct – a quiet, inexplicable voice inside of us communicating an emotion or feeling that only art or music can convey. In our fast-paced technological world, it seems increasingly vital that we don't render ourselves blind to that deep primal language, so often undervalued'.