My research explores the grayscale between mystical imagination, (EVC’s Perspectivism, the Xawara of David Kopenawa) mainly in Latin America, and contemporary European science, attuning to the memory of non-human and human bodies. Workingalongside geoscientists, chemists, or philosophers, I reach for the creative sensibility and agency of the researcher as, in my opinion, scientists and artists are alike, albeit working with dissimilar systems.
My practice focuses on weaving trans-institutional webs as a decolonial methodology to care for the commons and endangered heritage. Creating across non-conventional pigment-based paintings to alchemical digital pieces and performances, I blend traditional and cutting edge technologies,from cosmogenic radionuclide extraction, SEM microscopy to painting and photograms. as keys to create reflective spaces for pondering the interconnectedness of our world and the affinity between art and science to posit transformatory potential.
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Isabella OGEDA has a BA in Painting from the Fine Art School of Rio De Janeiro (UFRJ). In 2018, they obtained a Master in the Art+Espace sector of EnsAD (Paris). They furthered studies at EAV Parque Lage, Chelsea College of Arts and Central St Martins. Isabella pursues a Transdisciplinary Studies Researcher Certification with a scholarship at The New Centre for Research & Practice, organized and created by Reza Negarestani.
From 2022, they’ve been chief painting assistant to Marcela Cantuária, working on large-scale commissions for PAMM Museum and Paço Imperial. Currently, Isabella lives between Paris and Rio de Janeiro, developping trans-national art and science projects with GFZ-Potsdam and Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro; while also giving tours of the Pompidou Center and Orsay Museum. In 2025, Isabella will be lecturing on painting techniques in the UAIIN of the Indigenous Committee of the Cauca Valley in Colombia.
They have exhibited and performed in Brasil and internationally in a range of spaces such as the Gaite Lyrique and 6b Art Center in Paris; Calouste Gulbelkian; Centro de Artes Municipal Hélio OIticica, Despina Center in Rio de Janeiro; Agora Collective and Levels Gallery, Berlin; Les Brasseurs, Belgium and Giv Lowe Gallery, Lisbon.