Artist Bio

Raisa Raquel Durandi is a Swiss-Brazilian artist, photographer, and artistic researcher born in Teresina, Brazil, and raised in Switzerland. As a 1.5-generation migrant, her bicultural upbringing was shaped by a constant navigation between cryptic and at times contradictory cultural influences. This environment cultivated a tolerance for ambiguity, an understanding of inclusion as a reciprocal act, and an appreciation for multifaceted perspectives over rigid polarities. Rather than searching for what was or could have been, she engages with the lived reality of a hybrid existence. Underlying her work is an ongoing inquiry into what it means to share space intentionally through difference.

She holds a Master of Fine Arts and Design in Photography & Society from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK). Working across photography, collage, assemblage, and essayistic film, Raisa Raquel Durandi deconstructs and reconstructs domestic, public, and institutional spaces to examine how cultural frameworks shape the environments we inhabit and how those environments, in turn, shape us. She uses worlding as a central methodology to investigate how meaning is constructed within such spaces, inviting conversations around coexistence, multiplicity, and atmospheric quality. Her practice is grounded in the understanding that the confusion often associated with a bicultural upbringing is not a deficiency to be reconciled but, when reframed and embraced, a means of existing in full beyond reductionist frameworks.