Ana Mazzei

The EFG Latin America Art Award, in partnership with ArtNexus, is pleased to announce Ana Mazzei from São Paulo, (Brazil), represented by Martins & Montero, from São Paulo, (Brazil), as the artist nominated for EFG's annual acquisition award.

The work was selected at the SP Arte fair with the collaboration of Alexia Tala, Independent Curator, jointly with Celia Sredni de Birbragher, Director and Editor of ArtNexus.

Ana Mazzei builds a sculptural universe where the geometric and the organic dialogue in compositions are charged with poetic tension. Her practice summons references to theater, mythology, and personal memory without appealing to direct narratives. The works behave like suspended scenographies, where each form seems to await its entrance into an action that is never fully defined.

Estrela, a work nominated for the EFG Bank and ArtNexus award, is part of the series "Cenas de Jardim" (2024), where several works arranged in an open space evoke the scenario of a stopped fable. The forms, ambiguous and symbolic, invoke the human, the animal, or the ancestral, bordering on the surreal. Like actors at rest, the elements seem to contain a latent gesture, hinting at a transformation about to occur. Alexia Tala

EFG Latin America Art Award, now in its fifteenth year, was created to support a Latin American artist whose work is pre-selected through a juried process in Latin American contemporary art fairs throughout each year. The award aims to promote Latin American visual arts production and increase awareness of regional fairs among collectors worldwide, with Liaisons’ strategic support.