About

NANA, alias of Letícia Cristina, was born in Manaus/Amazonas on November 13 of 1997. Introspective and fearful, she grew with her feet in a fantasy world that pushed her creativity forward and took her to find ways to express it. When child was in love with illustrations and paintings she saw in movies and comic books. When she realized that her parents and her friends liked her drawings and thought she was talented, she felt she had found something important. Her art took a more serious and dark turn after the passing away of her mother and, in reason of her lack of communication skills, it became her main form of expression. In 2020, after a drastic crisis in her mental health, she decided to do what she always wished for and started dedicating herself to paint acrylic on paper. Self-taught, learned through practical experience, improving through her work, and finding inspiration in the pieces of contemporary artists such as Alex Foxton and Antonia Showering. The themes of her paintings are the reflections of her deepest fears, her history with grief, and the continuation of her search for understanding her disorders and the effects they have on her mind. She had her first experience in a collective exhibition in november of 2021, as part of the second edition of The Enchanted Fair in Manaus. Her focus now is based on learning more about how to execute gradients of colors and on the study of the human body proportions.