---
title: Lia Naya
description: >-
  I turn emotional sensitivity into material—revealing the invisible that
  sustains us.
url: 'https://www.artsume.com/a/lia-naya'
type: artist
createdAt: '2026-02-13'
updatedAt: '2026-09-29'
disciplines:
  - Painting
  - Sculpture
  - Site-Specific Art
  - Environmental Art
  - Mixed Media
location: 'São Paulo, Brazil'
website: 'https://LiaNaya.art'
birthYear: 1974
---

# Lia Naya

*I turn emotional sensitivity into material—revealing the invisible that sustains us. | Painting, Sculpture, Site-Specific Art, Environmental Art, Mixed Media | Based in São Paulo, Brazil*

## Artist Statement

I investigate ruin not as an end, but as a transitional state. This research began with a simple observation: when sensitivity is systematically silenced, collapse is not an accident—it is a consequence.

In my work, the failure of visible structures does not mean absence. It becomes a threshold where forces outside rational control can be perceived. I’m interested in what remains operative when form gives way: the subtle, unnamed supports that continue to hold human experience together even after what seemed stable breaks down.

By shifting emotional fragility from weakness to perceptive power, I affirm sensitivity as an expanded way of reading the world—an active antenna often dismissed by models of excessive rationality. When this sensitivity is muted, accumulation turns into tension; restraint becomes collapse. Ruin emerges not as a choice, but as the result of denying the invisible.

Working across painting, sculpture, and expanded practice, I explore tensions between matter and suspension, flow and containment, failure and permanence. Rather than restoring ideal balances, my pieces aim to make perceptible the sensitive structures that keep acting when everything that once seemed solid fails.

## About

I’m Lia Naya, a São Paulo–based visual artist, graduated in Fine Arts from Panamericana – School of Art and Design (2025). Working across painting, sculpture, and expanded practice, I explore tensions between matter and suspension, flow and restraint, failure and permanence. My research translates emotional states into material presence, revealing the invisible as a force that sustains human experience.

## Curriculum Vitae

### Education

- **2026** - Certificate, Fine Arts (Artes Plásticas), ESPM Panamericana Escola de Arte e Design, São Paulo, Brazil

### Group Exhibitions

- **2026** - *Panamericana School of Art and Design graduating exhibition · opening 4 mar 202*, ESPM Panamericana Escola de Arte e Design, São Paulo, Brazil

## Portfolio

### Mosaico de água (2025)

*Resin, artist-made mold*

*Dimensions (≈): 27.6 × 27.6 in each (framed); 15.7 × 15.7 in each (unframed)*

Mosaic Water articulates flow through discontinuity. The work presents water not as a continuous surface, but as a field of assembled fragments—units that imply movement while insisting on edges, joints, and intervals.

In Mosaic Water, I treat water as something that can be reorganized: a body made of parts. The mosaic structure interrupts the expectation of seamless flow and turns perception toward what usually disappears—boundaries, fractures, and the logic of assembly. Instead of “repairing” fragmentation, the work inhabits it, suggesting that continuity can be constructed from breaks. Between flow and containment, the piece proposes a different kind of stability: not smooth or resolved, but held together by tension, rhythm, and the persistence of material.

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### Água Quebrada I–III (2025)

*resin cast from an artist-made mould*

*Dimensions (≈): I — 11.8 × 17.7 in; II — 17.7 × 21.7 in; III — 11.8 × 15.7 in*

Broken Water I–III is a transitional set in which matter no longer flows as continuity, but appears as a fractured contour. Across the three works, fragmentation intensifies and form is held in tension with its own support.

In Broken Water I, interruption begins: the material breaks from continuity and becomes a fractured outline, activating the tension between form and support. In Broken Water II and III, fragmentation deepens—breaks, marks, and voids remain visible as constitutive parts of the process. Together, I–III mark a turning point: form no longer seeks stability, and my research calls for an expansion of scale and method.

## Links

- **Website:** https://LiaNaya.art
- **other:** https://@lianaya.art