Bruna Canepa formally trained as an architect before focusing more heavily on her art practice. Working in mixed media, Canepa creates collages on paper which examine the unseen social structures which are built into urban environments. Combining graphic architectural drawings with illustrative figures, decals of images of antiquity, such as heads or busts of goddesses are added to the mix, as well as contemporary iconography of logos and branding slogans. Traversing divergent techniques and timescales, her works explore the different eras present within urban architectures, whilst her experimentations with scale shed light on the behaviour or influence of forces such as capitalism or the patriarchy within the city. Canepa continues to fuse her practical skills she garnered at the architectural school Escola Da Cidade with her more intuitive work as a designer and artist. ...
