nathalia bertazi




_Cons tran gi mentos
2023 - present 







Another Shore
group show
Art@111 gallery, London/UK
2025












               



               
                fazer das tripas, o coração, 2025
              sculptures, stones and fishing wire, various dimensions












some memories are just a thought series
2023
digital collage


                     





                          
   













     

Through my artistic practice, I sought to
explore and reconcile the complexities of my
heritage, weaving together elements of
nostalgia, longing, and resilience. Visual
collage became my chosen medium for
expressing the intricacies of my personal
narrative, capturing the essence of my
upbringing while transcending its limitations.

Clamor, 1 x 1
2025
Fineart Print on Canva



gambiarra
2025
sculpture
various materials
32 x 85 cm




                                                           









         



I want you to stay
2025

1. Photoetching on fabric
2. Chine-collé
                                  never there
                               2024
                               Photoetching on Sommerset Paper


you’re never ever ever ever there
2025
installation photoetching and stitching on paper
57 x 220 cm


shown at
The Fall of Icarus , Upper Gulbenkian Galler y, London UK, 2025






the fairest - for occupation - this
2025

photoetching on Japanese paper, 76 x 76cm


_Amor a
RCA School of Arts & Humanities Show
London UK, 2025

video by José Cárdenas and Pan Yihan























metal piece
















piece of metal    


artist and cultural programmer

born 1987, Pirassununga - Brazil
lives and works in London - UK

nbertazi@gmail.com
@nathaliabertazi




 An in-depth understanding of how images circulate socially , and how visual language carries histories of power, gender, and cultural belonging, has been a long-standing pursuit of mine. I am drawn to the instability of meaning and the fragmentation of visual language: dismantling normative narratives is central to my practice. 
As a Brazilian artist, I hold that making is never neutral. 
Gestures carrying critical force (layering, erasure, repetition, tension) are tools to disassemble images, not to destroy them, but to open them up:
exposing contradictions, absences, and the social codes embedded in representation.

I approach images as both carriers and containers, 
surfaces tha thold projection, memory, and social expectation. 
My work is process-based:
layering, abrasion, erasure, and reprinting, are tools of investigating what lies
 beneath (what resists, and what persists as residue rather than representation), revealing tension, hesitation, and fragility , turning archival photographs into active sites of inquiry. 
Through this approach, I examine identity as iterative, relational, and historically situated, creating openings where visual language can be reconsidered, and where inherited codes of gender and authority can be questioned and re-imagined.

Rather than coherence or closure, I turn to processes that allow for rupture, doubt, and multiplicity. My aim is not to resolve, but to hold complexity - to create openings where new readings and new relations can take s hape. My practice becomes a form of inquiry: a method for keeping questions alive, and for staying with the frictions that emerge when image and identity no longer align
 cleanly, but remain iterative, relational, and responsive. 
A way of thinking through how we speak, how we listen, and how we might rebuild
visual languages together .








Education






MA Print, Royal College of Art, London - UK, 2024 - 2025

PG Curating Contemporary Art, The Art of Social Engagement , UAL: Chelsea College of Arts, London - UK, 2018

BA Photography, Escola Panamericana de Arte e Design, Sao Paulo/BR, 2010-2011

BA Languages and Literature, Anhanguera Educacional, Sao Paulo/BR, 2005-2009





Residencies
Art Residency Workshop de Allende
led by Alessandra Sanguinetti, Jim Goldberg and Paul Schiek
TBW Books
San Miguell de Allende - Mexico, 2023

Research Residency in Contemporary Art Encorpando Processos Criativos
led by Virginia de Medeiros
Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Sao Paulo - Brazil, 2023





Shows
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2025
Another Shore
Art@111 Gallery, London/UK

Dutch-Tape
co-curated with Darcie Burns and Hagar Etiel
Royal College of Art, London/UK

School of Arts & Humanities MA graduate show
Royal College of Art, London/UK

The Fall of Icarus
Upper Gulbenkian Galler y, London/UK

Ancestral Utopias
Hangar Galler y, London/UK

Rites of Ruins
co-curated with JJ Hellerman
Safehouse1 Peckham, London/UK

In Betweens
Print MA show
Southwark Park Galleries, London/UK

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2024
Invisible
Hockney Galler y, London/UK

Obra de Memória
co-curated with lombada
Edifício Vera, Sao Paulo/BR

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2023
Significância
curated solo show by Dan de Carvalho
LOV A, Amsterdan

Início, meio e início
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo/BR

We Like Small Things v.6
FilterPhoto Space, Chicago/US

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2018
Sinapses
Galeria Vão, Sao Paulo/BR





founder of
soslaios, arte e cultura
educational project (2018)

co-founder of
asdfasdfasdf
an art lab based in London for now (2025)

co-founder, executive producer and art-educator at
lombada collective
photobook and zine lab (2017-24)

executive producer of
Festival Imaginária
photobooks fair and festival
São Paulo (2023)

photo editor at
GQ Brazil magazine
edições Globo | Condé Nast (2012-16)

researcher at
Marie Claire Brazil magazine
editora Globo (2010-12)



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