Ana Angelica Costa

A visual artist, researcher, and cultural producer, currently a PhD candidate at the Institute of Arts at UNICAMP. She is a cofounder of the Subsolo Project, dedicated to photography and contemporary art production in Rio de Janeiro from 2005 to 2015. Her research focuses on pinhole photography and camera obscura-based processes. Her work has been published in catalogues participated in ehxibitions in Brazil and Argentina and is part of the Joaquim Paiva Collection on loan to MAM Rio. She has received major awards, including Projéteis de Arte Contemporânea, Interações Estéticas, XIII Prêmio Marc Ferrez de Fotografia, entre outros. She founded Câmera Lúcida and Casa de Eva in Campinas, and served as artistic coordinator of the Hercule Florence Photography Festival from 2021 to 2024. In 2025, she received the XVII Marc Ferrez Photography Award to develop the project Body, Camera obscura, Uterine device - Female protagonism in brazilian experimental photography, a research in partnership with Rosa Bunchaft. This year, as part of her PhD research, she will transform a container into a Camera obscura. Her research frames the Camera obscura as a sensible meeting dispositif.