Born in São Gotardo, Minas Gerais (1974) Brazil, lives and

works in São Paulo.

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Janaina graduated in Architecture in 1999 and studied

Fine Arts from 2004 to 2007, both at the Federal

University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil.

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The artist's main idea is to re-signify essential aspects of

the experience of being in the world, through the optics

of dynamic flows and forces, unity and multiplicity,

mathematical abstraction and cartography, architecture,

science and nature; emphasizing the relationship between

frequency, rhythm and time, showing the infinite

interconnection of individual trajectories in a system,

in society or on the planet. Her work transits between

different scales - from the object to public spaces.

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In recent years, she has shown her work in exhibitions

in Brazil, France, Netherlands, United States, among

other places. Her work is part of important private and

institutional collections, such as Museu de Arte do Rio -

MAR (Brazil), MAD Paris (French National Collection),

Fondation Carmignac (France), BIC Collection (France) and

Facebook (Menlo Park - USA), The Graeme and Mabie Briggs

Collection of Latin American Art (Australia). Her main

institutional exhibitions were at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris,

2016; at the Ch.teau de Chaumont-sur-Loire in France, 2019;

and at the 13th edition of the Bienal do Mercosul, 2022 and

her solo exhibitions at Zipper Galeria in 2015, 2016, 2019,

2022 and 2024.