Juliana Bellante is a visual artist working across drawing, painting, and artist books. Her practice explores the image as a site where matter, memory, and language come into relation.
Originally trained in Fine Art, she later developed a parallel engagement with archives, knowledge systems, and the material life of books, leading her to train as a librarian. This dual background informs both the conceptual and material dimensions of her work, where collecting, ordering, and reconfiguring become integral to the making of images.
Working with gouache, collage, and found or discarded materials, Bellante constructs images through processes of accumulation and encounter. Fragments, marks, and elements of the world are brought together on the surface, where they coexist without hierarchy and generate unstable, relational structures.
Her ongoing project, Sensitive Ontologies, approaches drawing and painting as open systems in which images do not represent, but emerge. Across her work, she positions visual art as a mode of inquiry, one that unfolds through material processes, sustained attention, and the interplay between perception and form.