Raffaella Yacar
- Aug 11
- 1 min read
Raffaella Yacar’s paintings often begin with asemic writing, marks that look like handwriting but don’t spell anything. From there, her figures and landscapes run into each other, so it isn’t always clear what you are seeing. She says a landscape exists in her mind before it ever becomes a picture.
Her paintings and drawings deal with intimacy, desire, disguise, and mystery. Her installations come from objects and old relics she collects, and from her reading in philosophy, anthropology, and language. Yacar has degrees in architecture and philosophy and a master’s in urban anthropology, and she worked as an architect for more than ten years before art took over.
She is Brazilian and now lives in Zurich and São Paulo. Her work has been shown in both cities, as well as in Venice, Singapore, and New York.
