nathalia bertazi


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

_
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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