ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mylene Costa is a Brazilian visual artist and self-taught sculptor whose work gives form to tension, memory, and the silent force of matter.
Seized by the act of making. Shaped by urgency. Based between Brazil and the United States, Costa developed her language through observation, experimentation, and an instinctive command of form, volume, surface, and material presence.
Moving between figuration and abstraction, Costa creates sculptures that explore the body, time, transformation, and the emotional charge contained in matter. Through resin, bronze, metal, and experimental finishes, her works reveal a continuous dialogue between strength and vulnerability, permanence and rupture, silence and physical presence.
Her trajectory as a self-taught artist is not a biographical detail. It is a central force. Without conventions, Costa built an independent visual identity grounded in intuition, discipline, and a direct relationship with materials. Each sculpture is a body of thought - a form charged with memory, tension, and symbolic density.
Works presented in Brazil, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Miami Art Week 2025. Luxembourg Art Prize 2025. SINAP/AIAP - award in sculpture.
Mylene Costa continues to transform inner experience into matter.
"I do not sculpt. I witness."
“In my sculpture, I investigate the fissures left by time, the body, and the gaze on surfaces. I am drawn to organic shapes — sometimes sensual, sometimes unsettling — lines that open like incisions, inviting touch yet also imposing distance. I work with materials that embody a duality: the metallic coldness of aluminum or the almost artificial sheen of automotive paint contrasts with the organic vibrancy of the forms, creating a tension between the industrial and the living. My works are not meant to merely seduce through visual impact; I aim to provoke a deeper reflection on the body, desire, and memory. I also explore the feminine form in motion — as language, presence, and metaphor. Some pieces emerge from gesture, others from folding — always as a response to something that pulses from within. Each sculpture is a trace of something breaking, bending, or blooming — a fragment of narrative that remains open, like a beautiful wound."