Mavi Accorsi (1998) is a visual artist based in São Paulo. She holds a degree in visual arts from FAAP and researches creation as an ontological experience of body and perception. Her work involves word, gesture, color, and memory, understanding painting as a body that transforms and is transformed. Her practice arises from intuition and positions itself in the interval between figure and abstraction, seeking in the figurative the unnameable, and sustaining the tension between presence and the dissolution of form.

E se muitas vezes pinto grutas é que elas são o meu mergulho na terra, escuras, mas nimbadas de claridade, e eu, sangue da natureza (2025) is part of a series created from sentences found in Clarice Lispector’s books Água Viva and A Breath of Life. In most of the works in this series, the titles were found afterward, as echoes of what had already happened on the canvas. Here, however, the phrase came first and became the starting point. It led the artist to think of gesture as a dive—a dive into matter, color, and the very experience of painting. She worked with thick layers of green and blue until the surface gained density and depth. Then, with an oil stick, she drew harsher gestures, almost like marks left on stone. By scraping off covered areas, small glimmers began to appear, as if the very act of painting was also a form of excavation.

This work emerges from Accorsi’s research on painting as an ontological experience, in which making does not seek to represent something but to exist alongside the material. The cave is both body and landscape: an inner space where gesture, color, and time blend. The painting revealed itself through this interplay between concealment and exposure—like someone groping in the dark who, by chance, finds a buried glimmer.