ARTIST VISION

“Y is for Yanna Soares who is at the vanguard of a new wave of the patriotic movement Tropicália with her striking silkscreen images.”

- Harper’s Bazaar, Oct 2007.

Yanna Soares is a Brazilian contemporary artist who combines a number of printmaking techniques and collage to create a layered visual language. Her methodology is rooted on American Pop Art and involves a constant experimentation with photography, silkscreen printing and graphic design in her work. Yanna combines patterns, colors, textures and imagery in order to make a range of simultaneous combinations and varied directions to her unique prints. Distinct image sequences and a constant change of focus add to the dynamic syntax of the work and to the complexity of her storytelling.

The result is a festival of forms and vibrant colors that dialogue on the infinite possibilities and levels of seeing and being and the influence of found and authoral images on memories and dreams. The artist likes to examine her own dislocation over the years and the effect of these graphic observations on the real and imagined worlds.

Yanna Soares was born in Salvador (Bahia) in 1981. She studied in the centennial Pratt Institute of New York and at Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London.