About the artist
Renata Pelegrini is a visual artist and translator. Her career unfolds in a multidisciplinary dynamic where art, science, and collective/personal narratives intertwine to value ancestry, the intelligence of more-than-humans, and traditional knowledge. Her works explore everything from plant roots to luminescent creatures from the depths of the sea. During a residency at Hangar (Lisbon, 2018), she investigated feminine practices.
Since 2020, she has been part of collectives for the preservation of the planet with actions/discussions between art and science. In this journey, she has expanded her creative and collaborative perspective on the intrinsic connection between humans and the environment. In 2021, she created the video PASSAGE, where transition zones and borders emphasize art as a tool for dialogue between the body, nature, and cosmic dimensions.
She has been writing for the Women’s League for the Ocean since 2022, the year of her solo exhibition TRILOGY OF WATER, motivated by her conversation with the American archaeologist Alex Jansen, thus highlighting the vitality of her visual narrative that proposes the permeability of beings and territories.
In 2023, she published the artist’s book TENTACULAR, a name also given to her solo exhibition in the same year.
The LIBRARY OF WATERS project (2024), conceived and developed by the artist at OceanUni/Ocean-Archive of the TBA21-Academy, is the result of this prolific work.
The LISTENERS sculptures, exhibited in her 2025 solo show, are the result of research from the last two years, and comprise a set that expresses Renata’s sensitivity in capturing and transforming into poetic experience the bonds that unite beings and the universe.
