Ava Namen is a Brazilian Tarot reader and transdisciplinary artist, based in Marseille (France), with a background in fashion design and architecture. Her work emerges from the desire to translate and ritualize, through esoteric-aesthetic approaches, phenomenological encounters with landscapes and bodies. 

    Using material resonance as narrative conductor, Ava’s multidisciplinary work is threaded in silver, both material and symbolic. Silver stainless steel intertwines jewellery, installations, texts, artisanal garments, videos, performance and Tarot. It is a result of symbiotic processes guided by intimate rituals, affective objects, routine and body adornments that manifests enchantment into space.

    Her process aims towards reinterpreting archetypes, in search for alternative representations of being. Trans-oracular experiments, stripper heels transformed into amulet, a steel jewelry dress built with the same material as a suspended altar, and so forth. The traditional Self, tools and spaces we occupy are constantly questioned, envisioning a co-creation with Nature. 

    Ava’s work was presented in the group exhibition Earthly Gleam at Teaser (Venice, Italy), featuring a curatorial response by Ioanna Gerakidi. Additionally, her jewellery creations are currently available at Elevastor and Printemps Haussmann, in Paris. Her professional Tarot consultations happens at Ateliers de la Ville de Marseille and in the historical streets of Le Panier.