works and lives between Zurich and São Paulo.

Raffaella Yacar is a Brazilian-Italian artist based in Zurich working mostly across painting, calligraphies, drawing, sculpture, and installation. She has exhibited in institutions and galleries in Zurich, São Paulo, Venice, Singapore, and New York.

Her practice explores the musicalities of nature, as well as feminine eroticism, intimacy, camouflage, mystery, and the invisible. Her work emerges from gesture, a critical engagement with material and the latent meanings embedded in form itself.

It unfolds between veiling and revelation, where desires and landscapes blur into one another. Guided by the sense that every landscape is first formed inwardly before becoming image, her practice gives material presence to subtle states of perception, intimacy and erotism that exist just before language emerges.

Raffaella holds degrees in Architecture and Philosophy from the Universidade de São Paulo and a Master’s degree in Urban Anthropology from ETH Zurich.