Andrea Derani was born and raised in the countryside of São Paulo, surrounded by trees and nature elements that deeply shape her visual poetics. Before dedicating herself to the visual arts, she worked as an environmental lawyer, developing projects focused on the protection of traditional knowledge associated with brazilian biodiversity.

In 2018, she began studying watercolor through the Rudolf Steiner method, which emphasizes sensory exploration and the qualitative perception of color based on Goethe’s theory of colors. This research continued during her postgraduate studies in Art Therapy, completed in2022 at Instituto Sedes Sapientiae.

Her work emerges from a silent listening to matter. Through her practice, the artist investigates impermanence and the transformative potential of the reparative gesture. Her series explore emptiness not as absence, but as a productive interval, a field in which what has been interrupted can reorganize itself and move forward under new configurations.
Her research is structured around the tension between continuity and rupture, embracing contradiction as method and complexity as a fundamental condition of the work. By incorporating ancient techniques into her artistic process, such as the use of urushi and powdered gold Derani establishes a dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity.
This gesture is not merely formal; it resonates with her environmental background, reaffirming an ethic centered on the appreciation of ancestral knowledge, handcrafted processes, and sustainability.
Between ruin and reconstruction, Andrea proposes an art of healing, contemplative and spiritual, that invites the viewer to perceive the beauty embedded in fragility and impermanence.