Vanessa Rosa: „'Little Martians: Dear Human, My Muse'“

Vanessa Rosa is a US based Brazilian visual artist. Her work merges physical and digital media into a storytelling continuum. Murals become portals to an imaginary world with projection mapping, ceramics metamorphose into living entities with the aid of AI models. She creates fictional tales about world history, past and possible futures intertwined.She started to do street art in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, creating murals that mixed historical characters with the local environment. Her work gradually evolved into tales of world history and cultural exchange, from Portuguese Tiles, Islamic sacred Geometry, Chinese porcelain to the study of ethnomathematics and patterns within indigenous societies. She went from a completely free hand painting approach to a mix of several media. After the 2020 pandemic, Vanessa dived into sci-fi and now she creates a fictional universe called Little Martians.Vanessa has done mural paintings, exhibitions and other projects in South and North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Some of the most important projects include: 'Little Martians' sci-fi universe featured in the Nvidia AI Art Gallery (2023-2024), the art history children’s book series 'Diana’s World'(2020-), performance in Gray Area (San Francisco 2022), a large scale mural for Pioneer Works (New York City, 2017) and a commision for UN Women (2014).