Ana Biolchini is a Brazilian artist based in Rio de Janeiro whose work investigates how bodily experience shapes perception and how encounters with materials, spaces and other people can unsettle familiar ways of seeing and moving. Her practice draws on visual art, knowledge of movement and philosophical inquiry, using attention as a method to investigate the interval between a gesture and the awareness of that gesture, and the subtle adjustments of support, balance and orientation that often pass unnoticed.
Her research draws on decades of work with bodily movement and perception. She developed MIS — Método de Investigação Sensível — as a framework for sustained attention to these processes. In participatory actions, she establishes conditions of time, space and movement within which participants explore their own responses. Across her work, these questions take distinct forms. In Horizontes do Corpo, bodily forms emerge and dissolve between anatomy and landscape. In Pés do Mundo, arrangements of ceramic feet bring support, distance and passage into relation with each location. Her practice leaves room for encounters and interpretations that exceed her initial intentions.
Biolchini studied at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage between 1998 and 2003, including the Work in Progress program with Anna Bella Geiger. She holds a postgraduate qualification in Art and Philosophy from PUC-Rio and was an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited, New York, in 2024. Based in Rio de Janeiro, she works across painting, installation, photography, video, silkscreen, ceramics, embroidery and performance.
