NEW YORK, NY.- Flávia Ventura (b. 1991, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) develops a practice that investigates the body as a mutable device for sensorial experimentation, proposing shifts in discourse and agency in relation to sexuality, gender, power, and violence. They hold a BA in Fine Arts, with a specialization in painting, from Escola Guignard (UEMG). Their work proposes the creation of fictional narratives that exist between reality and fantasy, engaging with abstraction to construct body-mental landscapes through painting and its expansive possibilities.

Based on the observation and critical reinterpretation of hegemonic pornography, their research is situated within a critique of the “male gaze,” proposing shifts in regimes of visibility surrounding the eroticization of bodies and challenging normative imaginaries of sexuality through the symbolic, physical, and psychic reconfiguration of penetration. By articulating bodies, nature, and technology, their investigation expands into inorganic dimensions and fields of erotic, aesthetic, and political experimentation, in which earthy tones simultaneously evoke skin and soil in transformation. In dialogue with mystery, subjectivity, and impermanence, the manipulation of materials takes on a ritualistic and performative character, while abstraction operates as an opening toward zones of ambiguity, where gender-fluid bodies merge with animals, plants, objects, and landscapes, dissolving hierarchies among these forms of existence.

Ventura lives and works in São Paulo. Winner of the PIPA Prize 2025, their solo exhibitions include the 34th Exhibition Program at CCSP (2025), and group exhibitions include Telúricos (curated by Ana Carolina Ralston), Nara Roesler (2026, São Paulo, SP); PIPA Prize Winners 2025 (curated by Luiz Camillo Osório), Paço Imperial (2025, Rio de Janeiro, RJ); Porvir – Piscina #1 (curated by Paula Plee), Gruta (2024, São Paulo, SP); Sagrado Abjeto (curated by Alice Granada), UERJ (2023, Rio de Janeiro, RJ); Sindicato de Artistas, Massapê (2023, São Paulo, SP); Sangria (curated by Maria Silvia), FUNARTE (2023, Belo Horizonte, MG); Temporada de Verão, GAL (2022, Belo Horizonte, MG), among others.