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multidisciplinary artists between the realm of matter and idea
Vera da Costa is a Portuguese artist based between Rotterdam and Lisbon.
Her practice is rooted in embodied research, intuitive making, and the belief that creativity bridges healing, ancestral memory, and collective knowledge.
She weaves trance states, ritual, performance, and symbolic language into her work. Vera is particularly interested in how speculative practices — movement, touch, sound, presence — can access ways of knowing beyond language, academia, or colonial systems of thought.
Vera holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Willem de Kooning Academy and is professionally trained in photography, with a special appreciation for analogue.
The body is a site of creating, storing and remembering knowledge. A sacred relationship between memory, transmutation and intuition.
Her practice flows through weaving, natural dyes and textile manipulation alongside writting, performance and audioviduals. Currently, her curiosity pulls her toward immersive installations and the creation–curation of spaces.
Exploring
the ephemerality of moments — rhythms, repetition, fluidity, care
how to create and hold space beyond known reality — within the unseen yet felt, in the body
how to bring the viewer into conversation with their own knowing through the body
how to guide the viewer into intentional states of being
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the ephemerality of moments — rhythms, repetition, fluidity, care
how to create and hold space beyond known reality — within the unseen yet felt, in the body
how to bring the viewer into conversation with their own knowing through the body
how to guide the viewer into intentional states of being
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Collaboration is an integral part of her practice. When collaborating, one gives agency to the other — to share rhythms, flows, questions, and reflections.
Vera collaborates with creatives, communities, materials, ideas, and contexts, allowing each relationship to define its own needs and desires. This leads to work that exists in multiple, sometimes contradicting timelines.
For Vera, creativity is life’s core essence. It’s how language is made, waves break, flowers bloom, and birth happens.
All around us is creativity — life expressing itself. Within this point of view, art becomes a relationship: a deep listening to the realm of ideas and a commitment to act on them.
She sees her practice as co-creation with the natural world and the collective un/conscious.
She invites others into processes of remembering, feeling, and becoming.
All around us is creativity — life expressing itself. Within this point of view, art becomes a relationship: a deep listening to the realm of ideas and a commitment to act on them.
She sees her practice as co-creation with the natural world and the collective un/conscious.
She invites others into processes of remembering, feeling, and becoming.
Based between Netherlands and Portugal
Contact
email - veramachadodacosta@gmail.com
instagram - Vera da Costa
Contact
email - veramachadodacosta@gmail.com
instagram - Vera da Costa