​Ana Rocha (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1984) is an Afro-Brazilian visual artist based in Mexico City. Her work is defined by a vibrant, symbolic aesthetic that weaves together her cultural roots with a critical, poetic, and experimental approach.

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Her pictorial process dialogues with what she defines as a mestiza identity, complex and deeply Brazilian. In her compositions, resources from European traditions of figurative abstraction intertwine with her own symbolic imagery, appropriated from an anthropophagic perspective, an artistic and historical Brazilian gesture that does not merely replicate what it inherits, but devours, transforms, and re-signifies it.

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From this mixed-race consciousness, she explores the links between ancestral memory, the collective imagination, and sensory perception. Her practice has consolidated into a visual investigation of mestizaje as an aesthetic force, questioning colonial narratives and celebrating the plurality of her Afro-Indigenous heritage.

 

Her recent trajectory includes solo and group exhibitions in Mexico City and international virtual platforms, in spaces such as Proyectos Puente, La Bolivianita, and Revolú Gallery.

 

She lives and works in Mexico City.