Selected works
A selection of works that traverse Mylene Costa’s sculptural research, where the body, silence, and time assert themselves as material. Each series reveals form as a sensitive experience and a lasting presence.
awards
Awards that highlight Mylene Costa’s journey, valuing her unique artistic expression and the sensitivity her works evoke.
OPERA CORE
Passage
2023
Artist’s Collection
Resin-coated metal
25,5 × 80 cm
Passage is conceived as a sculptural interval — a vertical threshold that marks the act of crossing. The work does not depict movement; it establishes a condition of transit, where form becomes a measure of time and experience. The elongated structure suggests a body in suspension, neither fixed nor resolved. Its surfaces retain subtle variations that interrupt linearity, affirming that passage is never a straight trajectory, but a sequence of tensions and adjustments. Solidity and vulnerability coexist, transforming the sculpture into a silent axis of endurance. More than an image of walking, Passage proposes a state of becoming. It articulates the space between what has been crossed and what remains ahead, affirming continuity not as certainty, but as persistence. In this suspended interval, the work embodies the quiet strength of transition — where presence is sustained through movement.
Time Rift
2023
Artist’s Collection
Automotive resin and internal acrylic painting
60 × 25 × 20 cm
Time Rift is a sculpture that invites the viewer to cross the visible surface of existence and enter hidden layers of delicacy and memory. Its curved, vibrant forms express movement and vitality. The outer body of the piece is painted in intense yellow, symbolizing light, awakening, and vital energy. At its center, the opening reveals an enigmatic passage, contrasting with the luminous exterior and suggesting depth and interiority. The work reflects on the feminine as power: strong on the outside, profound within. It is also an invitation to pause, to contemplate, and to listen to the subtle voices of time — reaffirming the ability of art to unite the visible and the invisible within a single experience.
Hiato 1133
2025
Artist’s Collection
Pigmented automotive resin
79 × 40 × 50 cm
In creating Hiato 1133, the artist sought in her research a meeting point between spirituality and knowledge. The sculpture rises as a portal, a fissure that suspends continuity and invites the viewer into a transformative experience. The title is not merely a cipher: 11 refers to the opening of paths, the spiritual dimension guiding the creative gesture; 33 is linked to teaching, transmission, and shared manifestation. Together, they expand the reading of the work as a crossing — not only formal but existential. Thus, Hiato 1133 symbolizes the passage between matter and idea, between silence and revelation. More than form, it offers the viewer a transport: an invitation to contemplate permanence born from fracture, and knowledge emerging from sensorial experience.
Cripta 4444
2025
Artist’s Collection
Resin with automotive finish
69 × 20 cm
On the faceted surface of Cripta 4444, time folds. Between planes and edges, the echo of an ancient memory pulses — as if matter held within it the remembrance of what endures. The metallic green emanates a singular vibration, merging the organic with the technological and unveiling the invisible architecture of what is eternal. Within its layers, there seems to be a frequency that sustains what transcends time. Cripta 4444 is not merely form: it is a core of permanence, where silence transforms into energy.
Nebra 1999
2025
Artist’s Collection
Automotive-finish resin
60 × 40 cm
Nebra 1999 establishes a dialogue between what has been revealed and what remains unseen. Its title refers to the 1999 discovery of the celestial disc in Germany — the earliest known human representation of the cosmos. The sculpture continues that ancestral gesture of observing time and giving it form. Suspended in space, the work does not depict the sky — it creates the interval where the sky can exist. Between density and lightness, reason and mystery, Nebra 1999 becomes presence. A quiet body that holds, on the surface of matter, the moment when the human gaze first learned to translate the invisible.
NEBRA SERIES
BODY IN SILENCE SERIES
Tácita
2006
Artist’s Collection
Bronze
14 × 20 cm
In Tácita, Mylene Costa sculpts in bronze the moment when the female body rests upon itself — with no need to speak, explain, or offer. The sculpture embodies a silent, complete presence — where sensuality is not displayed but perceived, like a secret held within the skin. The curves reveal more than form: they speak of silence, memory, and contained desire. This is a body surrendered to its own time, its own gesture, free from any expectation except that of simply being. Awarded 3rd place in Sculpture at the 11th International Visual Arts Salon (SINAP/AIAP), the piece was recognized by a distinguished jury — Oscar D’Ambrosio, Eliana Tsuru, and Márcio Schiaz — reaffirming the symbolic strength of a sculpture that speaks even in silence. Tácita is the absence of noise — and for that, it is pure presence.
Vital Impulse
2006
Artist’s Collection
Bronze
18,5 × 15 cm
It was not a project. Nor an experiment. It was a sudden, silent, and absolute urgency. The matter took shape without asking permission, responding to a force older than any intention. In minutes, what had always been latent emerged — as if it had only been waiting for the exact moment to exist. “Vital Impulse” is part of the artist’s personal collection. It marks the inaugural point of an inevitable path — the moment when creation revealed itself not as a choice, but as a vital necessity.
Évoa
2021
Artist’s Collection
Bronze
14 × 20 cm
Conceived in 2006 and cast in bronze only in 2021, Évoa remained veiled for years, like a body at rest awaiting its moment. Its name evokes mist and mystery, revealing the female presence as a metaphor for what is kept in silence until it becomes permanence. The contained and delicate lines translate interval into strength, showing that every creation has its own time to emerge.
Ivena
2006
Artist’s Collection
Bronze
8 × 5 × 19 cm
In Ivena, Mylene Costa shapes the female body in a gesture of introspection and inner intensity. The sculpture embodies the moment when desire, memory, and contemplation converge in silence, transforming into strength. Its lines reveal a profound femininity that finds power in withdrawal and permanence in introspection.
INDIVIDUAL WORKS
Rubra
2025
Artist’s Collection
Pigmented automotive resin
55 × 30 × 30 cm
Rubra emerges as an inaugural eruption of matter — a point where gesture and form condense into sculptural presence. Its strained surfaces capture the moment when expansion meets resistance, crystallizing the collision between impulse and density.
More than an instant of impact, the work sustains what remains after it. Its body holds the memory of raw energy and asserts itself as an inescapable presence, where form and time affirm permanence.
Nadir Solar
2025
Artist’s Collection
Pigmented automotive resin
54 × 17 cm
There is a moment when night becomes so deep it seems to suspend the world. Nadir Solar emerges from that threshold — darkness that welcomes and creates an inner space of stillness. The work reveals that the darkest hour is not collapse, but preparation: the universe gathers before expanding. Its contained folds and subtle gleams evoke a territory of suspension where nothing moves, yet everything vibrates.
Incepta
2016
Artist’s Collection
Pigmented resin sculpture
90 × 60 × 20 cm
“Incepta” is a work born from the tension between rigidity and fluidity, reflecting the path of the contemporary woman between the firmness imposed by the world and the internal need for transformation. Originally shaped in steel, a material that symbolizes resistance and structure, the sculpture was later transposed into pigmented resin—a choice that emphasizes the search for movement and flexibility. This transition of materials is not merely technical, but conceptual: by exchanging the rigidity of steel for the softness of resin, “Incepta” symbolizes continuous transformation, adaptability, and strength that reveals itself in softness. The sculpture’s abstract form, with its curved lines and absence of figurative traits, invites the viewer to reflect on the feminine essence seeking to manifest beyond expectations of rigidity. It is a piece that elegantly and symbolically synthesizes the dialogue between strength and delicacy, between structure and movement.
Sara 11:11
2025
Artist’s Collection
Resin with a pearlescent automotive finish
76 × 20 cm
Sara 11:11 inhabits a suspended space between faith, form, and time. In this work, Mylene Costa transforms the experience of absolute trust into sculptural language — belief as the structure, breath, and permanence of matter. The pearlescent surface suggests origin and revelation; its serene luminosity seems to rise from within, as if the piece carried the very light it announces. Its restrained verticality expresses faith not as rigidity but as an axis — a stable center from which the unseen finds support. Sara 11:11 does not represent a character, but a principle: creation born from what persists in believing. Between the human and the sacred, the sculpture becomes a silent witness to a fulfilled promise — the moment when light consents to become form.