Vânia Medeiros (1984) researches and practices transdisciplinary and collaborative creation processes. She uses drawing as a tool for investigation, which, in relation to other expressive languages, takes on different materialities.

She participated in the 36º Panorama da Arte Brasileira: Sertão at Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2019), and in several other solo and group exhibitions across Brazil. She has undertaken artist residencies in Ecuador, Colombia, and Germany. She was a finalist for the Prêmio Select de Arte e Educação in 2017 and 2018. With the artistic-pedagogical project Mulheres Possíveis – Corpo, gênero e encarceramento, developed with three other artists at the Penitenciária Feminina da Capital [Women’s Penitentiary], São Paulo, since 2016, she won the Rumos Itaú Cultural grant in 2018. Her work is part of the collection of Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM), as well as of private collections.

Through wanderings across different cities, the artist recreates routes and maps, transforming her sensory experiences into drawings, installations, and objects. In Atlantes (2016), excerpts from walks through the city of São Paulo were reproduced on stones found along the way, resulting in a set of small fragments inscribed with markings reminiscent of rune oracles. In this archipelago of routes and diverse proposals for journeys—more a matter of intensity than of extension—Vânia Medeiros brought forth, through the force of her line and her body in the traversed space, not a utopian underwater city, but fantastical and varied paths that lead us adrift, as a body-eye. Each movement is a discovery.

The work was shown in the solo exhibition Atlântida at RV Cultura e Arte (2016) and in the group exhibition Utopias e distopias at the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (2023).