Indiara Nicoletti Ramos
Indiara Nicoletti Ramos grew up in an environment deeply shaped by literature, art, music, and intellectual inquiry. Her family background included musicians, writers, theater practitioners, and educators. Her father studied philosophy, psychology, and the arts, while her mother worked as a teacher of history, geography, and philosophy. Their home contained books, artworks, recordings, and archival materials, creating a setting where cultural exchange was part of daily life, even though she was not directly encouraged to pursue art as a profession.
From an early age, Nicoletti was immersed in artistic activity. She drew, painted, danced, sang, and wrote regularly as a child and learned to read and write at a very young age through close interaction with books and language. Writing became part of her daily routine early on, including keeping a diary with her father before she began writing independently. She spent long hours in libraries and cultural centers near her home in São Paulo, developing a strong connection to literature, movement, and visual expression. Encounters with theater during adolescence, including school productions and live performances, further solidified her commitment to artistic practice.
Her academic training began with a brief period studying fashion design, which she ultimately left after recognizing that the field did not align with her temperament or interests. In 2004, she entered the Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the Centro de Artes. Her education there was interdisciplinary and theory-intensive, encompassing visual arts, music, theater, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology of art, and critical theory. This academic environment played a central role in shaping both her intellectual framework and her artistic methods.
Nicoletti’s practice is interdisciplinary and research-driven. She works across expanded printmaking, installation, sound art, video, performance, and text. Her long-term research centers on the relationship between image, word, and sound, often combining print-based materiality with written language and recorded audio. She has presented installations that integrate large-scale prints with sound recordings of original texts, emphasizing duration, repetition, and spatial experience. Collaboration is an important part of her practice, particularly with artists working in sound, musicology, and performance.
Recurring themes in her work include the feminine interior, dream states, silence, contemplation, intimacy, memory, and the relationship between the individual and social structures. Her work frequently engages subjective experience, mythology, archetypes, and psychological states, while remaining attentive to political and social responsibility, particularly within the Brazilian context. She draws from a wide range of influences across literature, music, cinema, and visual art, including poets, composers, filmmakers, and contemporary artists whose work engages intimacy, materiality, and social awareness.
Nicoletti does not follow a fixed studio routine. Her days are shaped by writing, printmaking, caring for her mother, and independently selling her publications and artworks. Writing often takes place early in the morning or late at night, while printmaking requires daylight and extended periods of focus. She describes conversation, music, and contact with nature as essential to her thinking process, and she does not identify strongly with creative block, viewing dialogue and observation as continuous sources of movement in her work.
She measures success through both audience response and personal fulfillment, valuing moments when her work resonates deeply with others as well as the act of sustained making itself. Her future goals include publishing books, expanding her exhibition practice internationally, continuing her interdisciplinary research, and pursuing graduate study focused on artistic process, psychology, and sound-based work.
